The reason why I'm not afraid of LLM generated code is that it cannot enter my own source trees without me actually doing (committing) it.
Which of course includes review and instant rejections of unreasonably large diffs for the desired change at hand.
Sounds like a rehash of
kpedersen's argument: "I don't care because (implying 'as long as') it doesn't affect me." I hope I don't have to point out that this avoids entirely the fact of an opinion on autogenerated software. Which you might not care about, but this thread is about what policy FreeBSD might have regarding it. If you design that policy on the basis of "I have no opinion," you by definition can only get a brainless policy.
Not really, it sounds like we are all quite lethargic about this whole hype than anything XD.
Lethargic is the group of people that are reading this, or even not, withour participating. You fellows have reacted, at times with decidedly hurt feelings. Lethargy it isn't.
When a wide range of participants with adjacent knowledge in the area arrive at the same conclusion, you might want to consider their views could be fairly on point.
I must have mistaken who I was talking to. How many of yous guys are autogenerated software engineers?
I will take the oportunity to say something alternative: "if they sound like the opinion of every dope on the street who doesn't know what "OS" means, that's a bad sign."
It's not a bad sign because you don't know computers. It's a bad sign because you do.
Translation: If its an algorithm that gets optimised with enough information to be able to profit and manipulate society, maybe the company behind it are anti-social.
I don't see where one follows the other. Just because a large company acquires technology that can profit and manipulate society, doesn't make it antisocial. In fact, that describes everything big companies have been doing since the dawn of man. It is the entire point of them. It's not bad or good, it is just inevitable.
The problem comes when marketing arises that is blatantly idiotic, and even educated men with enough independent thinking to even use a system like FreeBSD parrot it unthinkingly, obviating any reasoning. Then you start thinking, "maybe some people involved are less than spectacular."
I suspect its not the AI that people get frustrated at.
No, nobody ever gets annoyed at a thing they are scared of. They only get annoyed when the thing gets brought up... at whoever brings it up.
My experience, maybe yours differs.
(But you [@cracauer@] are right, the hiring process is compromised. Outsourcing, AI marketing and volume are exacerbating the problem for juniors particularly. In ~40 years there is going to be a lack of seniors to take over)
I will turn something you said around on you. If all the biggest companies are restructuring themselves to the core, involving tens of trillions of dollars and many decades of planning... Do you think maybe it might be time to reconsider your position that autogenerated software is a "gimmick?"
Shoot, maybe they're just making it up as they go along (can I say "shoot"?).
