2026-04-03 08:42 UTC
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@Namnatulco@sueden.social 2026-04-03 08:44
@rupert @tante there's an obvious connection to a critique of capitalism here, but I don't think that's the whole story, since we're seeing lots of open source projects both using and doing LLM stuff. It's not really a clean cut between open source and closed source anymore (it probably never was, though..)
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@wakame@tech.lgbt 2026-04-03 09:59
@Namnatulco @rupert @tante Taking Microsoft as an example (they are definitely not the only ones): Most of the time, when something goes wrong, the user will be confronted with an impersonal message, often accompanied by a long error code or hex value. So instead of a "Sorry you likely lost work", you get a passive-aggressive "Have fun googling this code. Or just give up." Half the non-technical users I know instantly blame themselves. The other half shrugs or vents their frustration. So yeah, software has trained people pretty well to just expect low quality.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-04-05 09:03
@Namnatulco @rupert @tante My 'half in jest' claim. https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/113607188959552181 I will also say that apparently, using LLMs for code generation is a Faustian deal: earning a savings in time and especially effort by paying for it in deep understanding. As a scientist, that strikes me as precisely the opposite of what science has been doing since time began. As science is what gave us computing and such in the first place, I predict that this will not end well.