2026-10-04 07:01 UTC
I'm not theoretical here. I keep receiving comparison tables with competing projects and products, and boy oh boy do vibe coded projects look awesome there. Quality? Who knows. Maybe it's just fine. By the time the users will figure out, they're already locked in.
One of the main reasons your favorite FOSS project uses #AI is that nowadays you have to run twice as fast to stay in the same place, to quote the classics. And it's not just about vulnerabilities.
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@creepy_owlet@mastodon.online 2026-10-04 07:04
For the love of God, please don't respond to this with a variation of "everyone should just"...
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@creepy_owlet@mastodon.online 2026-10-04 07:43
Outrunning slop generators is, of course, impossible unless you become one yourself. But even without that, saying "we cannot get to developing these critical features for years because of lack of free hands" doesn't go well with "we won't accept contributions from operators running our software because they use #AI". Honestly, getting operators to contribute substantial changes was one of undoubtedly positive things that LLMs did to our projects.