@MaddieM4 I believe your post lacks nuance. Behavior matters a lot more than syntax, and syntax is not the same as art. Doing useful things matters, and most of the code that corporations have coerced out of devs for a paycheck is a lot worse than the shit we can get out of the bots for 1/1000th of their paycheck right now.

The bots should be teaching you that data and testing matters. LLM's make the scientific process simpler and less prone to internal bias. It has external bias, but that's also a tool.

Microsoft killed QA industry wide in 2014 because every tech company followed Microsoft. I used to work in QA, and I'm salty about this, and now glad that devs are feeling the same burn.

The bot doesn't feel personally offended when I tell it it's code doesn't behave correctly. Many of the devs I worked with in the past would literally huff and puff out loud irl, and sometimes in my face when I assigned a ticket to them, or back to them.

Call me a booster if you want, but my skepticism is only lessened by critics calling the models and people who use them useless. I used to think the same, but it's no longer true.

@MaddieM4 Learning that so many people I respected absolutely did not have my back... I think honestly just broke a part of me.

Felt that more than interrogated it until super-recently. But now it's clear that some folks have a capitalistic/mercenary void where empathy and community should be and have somehow convinced themselves that that's some worthy form of pragmatism.

Well, here's where I'm at now: fuck those people.

This is something I really particularly felt with the LibreOffice drama.

Okay. There are people who are trying very hard to protect the world, to the degree they can. You want to make their lives significantly harder? And it's because you're unwilling to make your project very marginally less convenient for the people who are actively trying to burn the world down? Get the fuck out. And don't pretend to be an ally in my mentions.