GreenDotGuy

@pathunstrom @xgranade I'm curious about something.

I'm not a developer, but I have a lot of experience writing scripts, and I can 'think like a computer' and understand where things are happening and what's going wrong. I'm the person at work who gets the head-scratcher tickets and has to tactfully walk people back from 'bad ideas/bad design/tech debt'. I'm pretty sure that paired-up with something like Claude Code, I could work out a decent set of PRs to do something like "convert Basilisk II from GTK3 to GTK4, or SDL2 to SDL3".

A lot of people I interact with (not at work, thankfully) are deeply drunk on LLM Kool-Aide. They are weirdly excited about using LLMs and agents for everything they can. They tend to be the kinds of people that take joy in watching their toys 'do stuff' they never could with natural language. They do not have deep technical backgrounds, most have never written a script or taken the time to profile why something is slow or inefficient. I'm guessing that many people like this are just pointing their tools at projects and hoping to score points on GitHub like they would go for 'likes' on Instagram.

Is there a difference to the project owners between us, or are we both slop factories? I ask because I get the impression there are a LOT of the latter, and few of the former, and I'm guessing that one is giving a bad name to the other.

@hughsie I think a spinning character at the head of the progress bar makes sense (e.g. "| / — \"), but it would also be cool to see if some indication of 'what was mostly happening' was in a bracket at the head of the bar:

[=====[wait device] ]

@ethanschoonover What if it's *too effective*?

@ethanschoonover presumably in their mouths?

@flargh@mastodon.social "It's not a distress beacon sir, it's... a forwarding address to an unreachable server."

@jimbob I'm angry because my PC uses 12GB RAM just to boot up, it downloads 300+ megabytes of copilot updates every few days, and it spits advertising at me at every opportunity. Meanwhile, the Star Menu and File Explorer, critical features of the OS, have gotten weird and broken.