[–] -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's a ridiculous statement. I make royalties from sales of an audio sample library I once worked on. If people just pirated that sample library and got it for free and didn't buy it, I wouldn't receive any royalties.

That's called theft.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Funny, I know plenty of artists who care very much about copyright. I am one of them.

    None of these anti-copyright arguments hold any water for me. Copyright protects everyone, regardless of if they're tiny or huge. If you believe that isn't true because of the legal system favoring those with big pockets, that's the problem, not the concept of copyright per se.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    Either this is a poorly written article or it is totally LLM slop.

    Developers bragged about scale and beauty, and the brag couldn't be faked; the artifact proved it. Skill was the visible half of a pair. Taste rode along with skill.

    huh?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Have you seen the booking.com ads? They're literally about people in crappy desk jobs dreaming about going to some beautiful paradise location, and the location is AI generated. Think about it. People are dreaming about going to a fake place in the ad because the actual earth isn't exciting enough? WTF 😵‍💫

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My shorter answer: if you think you need to use canvas,

    you don't.

    (Unless you're literally building a drawing app.)

    99.99% of web applications would be better off virtually ignoring "best practices" introduced by Big Tech.

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

    If someone types into a prompt and they get a bunch of code spat out, I don't care if they reviewed it or not. It's slop.

    The only LLM-assisted code I can think of which I personally would not classify as vibe coding is the old-school copilot autocomplete. Unfortunately, that's not what anyone really means nowadays—so-called agenetic coding has become the norm.

    Also, regarding your last assertion, see: https://handcraftedcode.org

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