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'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming (alexn.org)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It feels so wrong that people are paying to get access to code

We pay for access to a high performance magic pattern machine. Not for direct access to code, which we could search ourselves if we wanted.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I disagree.

    Theres nothing magical about copying code, throwing it into a database, and creating an LLM based on mass data. Moreover, its not ethical given the amount of data they had to pull and the licenses Microsoft had to ignore in order to make this work. Heck my little server got hit by the AI web crawlers a while back and DDOSed my tiny little site. You can look up their IP addresses and some of them look at the robots.txt, but a VAST majority did not.

    There is a metric ton of lawsuits hitting the AI companies and they are not winning in all countries: https://sustainabletechpartner.com/topics/ai/generative-ai-lawsuit-timeline/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I’m simply saying that I’m not paying for access to the code. I’m paying for access to the high performance magic pattern machine.

    I can and have browsed code all day for 35 years. Magic pattern machine is worth paying for to save time.

    To be clear, stackoverflow and similar sites have also been worth paying for. Now this is the latest thing worth paying for.

    I understand you have ethical concerns. But that doesn’t negate the usefulness of magic pattern machine.

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