Not sure why you think this guy has built his entire personality around software. He is arguing against slop in free software. Being political about it is pretty normal I would say
It is kind of funny to me that the author is complaining about software that's already "done" being tweaked with AI. If it's done, just use an old version!
Anti-AI people don't seem to really live in reality. All AI = Slop (which is an absurd viewpoint) and that's the end of it. They have their purity tests and real outcomes don't matter to them.
Complaining about open source projects (which you can fork!) using a tool you have some objection to is just the newest low they've sunk to. Might as well rail against using clang, it's make about as much sense.
We don't have detailed polls but given how many people STILL think that a ChatGPT search costs a bottle of water I'm not optimistic.
Describing the opinions of large groups of people isn't clear-cut enough to justify calling it fallacious. I personally think that most anti-AI people I've met struggle to articulate good reasons to hate AI (here good = internally consistent) and I do think they've lost the plot.
This website hurts my eyes to read and the writing style is grating, not claude-level grating but I don't care for it.
> And the fucking disrespect from the developers overhwelms me.
The amount of entitlement in this typo'd sentence [0] is staggering. Developers who are spending their time/energy/money making software you get for _free_ are disrespecting you, the user, by developing the software however they see fit? Get off your high horse.
If you don't like it, fork it. Stop complaining about other people's free work.
These anti-LLM stances are so incredibly cringe and boring.
[0] PS: Not proof reading or spell checking just makes you look incompetent. Much like the rest of the author's stance, they seem to prefer to live in ignorance rather than utilize the technology available to them.
> This post has not been proof read or spell checked
If you want people to take the time to read what you write, then you take the time to proofread it and spell check it. I don't want to read low effort unedited human slop, especially human slop that hypocritically complains about low effort ai slop. Especially that's performatively artificially badly written just to make an ideological point.
Your own time you wasted by bragging about how you did not proofread your post plus the thousands of people's time you wasted having to read that while it was so painfully obvious you don't respect your audience enough to proofread was totally unnecessary. If you're making mistakes on purpose, you don't need to announce it, just do it without talking about it, because it's so obvious and such a waste of everyone's time.
Don't try to prove you're not an AI by making mistakes on purpose and not bothering to edit, just prove you're not an AI by putting in the effort by writing well, not inserting artificial signals and making contrived mistakes on purpose instead.
That's as low effort and unreadable as it gets. I don't care if you're on mobile, you still have a spell checker and can still edit text. If you refuse to proofread your text on mobile, then wait until you get home to write blog posts you expect people to read.
Good, because the slop era is over. LLMs can now deliver software of consistently better quality than humans can, much faster, and are more thorough in hunting down bugs and considering corner cases to boot.
I'd argue that the main thing producing slop is the human-with-ai cyborg. While the ai is maybe better at writing code, the range of humans prompting it has gotten stupider. So now we have projects like a bloodborne PC '''port''' which is absolutely slop and just packaging the emulator because someone told an ai to make native decompiled bloodborne.
I wish they had made this rant focusing on their ethical disagreements with AI-generated coding. Defining any software made/with as “slop” is silly to me. Say you hate AI and won’t use it on principle, don’t try to make it sound like AI can only be used to make low quality products, because that’s objectively wrong.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 5.5 ms ] threadOpen source projects evolve the same way closed projects do - users come up with ideas and contribute, propose things they think are cool, etc.
Complaining about open source projects (which you can fork!) using a tool you have some objection to is just the newest low they've sunk to. Might as well rail against using clang, it's make about as much sense.
Describing the opinions of large groups of people isn't clear-cut enough to justify calling it fallacious. I personally think that most anti-AI people I've met struggle to articulate good reasons to hate AI (here good = internally consistent) and I do think they've lost the plot.
> And the fucking disrespect from the developers overhwelms me.
The amount of entitlement in this typo'd sentence [0] is staggering. Developers who are spending their time/energy/money making software you get for _free_ are disrespecting you, the user, by developing the software however they see fit? Get off your high horse.
If you don't like it, fork it. Stop complaining about other people's free work.
These anti-LLM stances are so incredibly cringe and boring.
[0] PS: Not proof reading or spell checking just makes you look incompetent. Much like the rest of the author's stance, they seem to prefer to live in ignorance rather than utilize the technology available to them.
If you want people to take the time to read what you write, then you take the time to proofread it and spell check it. I don't want to read low effort unedited human slop, especially human slop that hypocritically complains about low effort ai slop. Especially that's performatively artificially badly written just to make an ideological point.
Your own time you wasted by bragging about how you did not proofread your post plus the thousands of people's time you wasted having to read that while it was so painfully obvious you don't respect your audience enough to proofread was totally unnecessary. If you're making mistakes on purpose, you don't need to announce it, just do it without talking about it, because it's so obvious and such a waste of everyone's time.
Don't try to prove you're not an AI by making mistakes on purpose and not bothering to edit, just prove you're not an AI by putting in the effort by writing well, not inserting artificial signals and making contrived mistakes on purpose instead.
That's as low effort and unreadable as it gets. I don't care if you're on mobile, you still have a spell checker and can still edit text. If you refuse to proofread your text on mobile, then wait until you get home to write blog posts you expect people to read.