I'll grow suspicious about the use of LLM if Hurd is suddenly able to do anything practical this year

Time to check out BSD again, IG

2027: the year of HURD.

What about the Linux kernel?

I knew I recognised the interface immediately. It's forked from FreeTube and has an AGENTS.md file setup and ready to go.

So, not only are they too lazy to code anything themselves, they decided to take something that's already been established and have some LLMs "improve" it for them.

Edit: They do mention on their github that it's "AI assisted" as well.

In the project I am working on I use 5 LLM models

• 3 evaluate a task
• 1 implements task
• 1 checks the work and send back to the implementer

What I have found is that anything done with a single family of models is going to be, in my opinion, far less quality than something done with at least a second family of models checking the work. In this particular case it also sounds like there was very little human oversight. Even it works, it likely will have lots of decisions which will come back to haunt the developer, or the users of the software.

"story told by photo craft"

I clicked around and couldn't find who wrote this. It's also very eager to send you to a Wordle-like game which itself links to a large number of what looks like news articles with no author given. It's a bit sketchy. I'd bet my left kidney this whole thing is AI-generated. You can't trust anything anymore.

Did you read the article?

Most of these projects are run by 1 or a few volunteers who have day jobs

Young people have day jobs

EU CE%sT

Something seems wrong with the timezone display 😅

Great article, great collection

and Germany's public fund for open source paid €195,000 for work on it

Great to see public money in this list

Thank you for linking the not animated version. I found them quite irritating and switched back to this version.

I maintain FOSS with 1 user (me).

Just like pollution they don't give a shit

Seems like AI slop

Lots of of old men on this list.

Do young (wo)men not create/maintain foss?

Image isn't great, but the article is fantastic

More AI coded things

I have the feeling you only read the first and last few sentences of the article, or maybe used an LLM to give you a false summary?

unlike polution companies might be negatively impacted by this.

The article concludes with this:

We would be doing a disservice to our users and our downstream fellow developers in the same way that a visual artist would be doing a disservice to their viewers or a musician would be doing a disservice to their listeners if they served them auto-generated filler instead of their own creative output.

You can personally select and fell all the trees used to build your house. You can cut and sculpt each 2x4 with chisels and a hand plane like a true artisan.

Or you could just buy lumber in bulk, toss the boards that have flaws, and build your house that way. What's great about that is that as long as you follow building codes your home won't just collapse at the first storm. It won't just burn down with the drop of a match. It won't leak and ruin your stuff.

Using LLMs to code is like buying lumber in bulk. Some of the boards that come off the truck will have flaws. Sometimes they're so bad you can break the 2x4 over your knee! But the job of the builder/framer is to make sure those bad boards don't get used. They're spotted, marked, and replaced.

Code can be art! Absolutely! But not all code needs to be art. Not only that, but your employer doesn't give a shit about how well-written any given code is so why bother? Just give them the AI output that works/passes tests and collect that paycheck.

they seem fairly useful for highly copyright ignoring reverse engineering, mostly because they have some understanding of most of the windows functions the driver I'm trying to dissect is using.

The amount of time an LLM saves is negated by fussing over which service provider and model to use, what to put in your agents.md file, setting it all up, maintaining it, and then arguing with its output since after all that trouble, the damn thing is still wrong 10% of the time. And then you've made yourself dependent on a service that is going to explode in price when the AI bubble pops.

It's a tool whose pros are more flashy and prominent than its cons.

For the most part I'm just focusing on learning and making myself a better programmer. I'd rather do that by going to the source (forum and blog posts, tutorials, Stack Overflow, and documentation) rather than have that information mixed in a blender and removed of its context and nuance by a bot that always gives an answer even when it can't find anything useful.