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[AIP] Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet (stalw.art)
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[–] [S] 66 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Here's their AI policy: https://support.stalw.art/t/how-we-use-ai-at-stalwart/1496

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  • [–] 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Holy fucking shit. I read the whole thing and I even enjoyed reading it. This has to be the most sane shit I’ve read all month. This is THE definition of “how to use a tool”. I freaking love it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    Definitely agree on that part, if only the tools themselves weren't so unethically created and a continual heavy drain on so many aspects of society I might consider using them for small, tedious tasks outside of work where I'm forced to.

    Also, they don't do much to aid my work and actively slow me down quite often since I don't think in words, so I have to translate my logic into a conversational essay for the AI to understand and then debug code someone else wrote. It's so much faster for me to translate my logic into programming languages directly which follow logic, not conversational norms. I see how it's useful for people who can't think in logical steps, though.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yeah it's quite disappointing how often that part is conveniently ignored in

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    It was kinda long so i just used ai to summarize it /j

    but seriously, wow, it is exactly what I've been thinking would be the perfect policy, they really nailed it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    It even makes sense on a technical level. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any group or company (at least that I know of) approach AI this way. It has always been either “absolutely no AI and it’s all slop” or “we are all in and we are not even writing a single line of code”.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    What I appreciate about this is the acknowledgement of something called "nuance" that AI can now write viable code and be a tool that improves software, reduces bugs and security issues, and increases the speed with which it is written and fixed. Just because there's an AGENTS.md doesn't make code slop. And the more we refine this method, the cheaper it gets in terms of tokens/energy.

    I'm not happy about what it means for juniors coming into the field, but we might have to change what we teach in order to build good software, as has been done dozens of times before.

    We'll still have the kneejerk reactionaries that are locking in the KV pair of AI=Slop but i guess that's a constant of the human condition. Conservatives never change their minds.

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