Post B0Ud7od6n5FrPE17cu by abrasive@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #B0ULUtOfR0Ipfz7I24 by projectgus@aus.social
       2025-11-22T01:06:27Z
       
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       Re: last boost  https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590 That OCaml PR is textbook open source in the era of vibe coding...It's got everything:- PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it.- Copyright laundering.- "I just wanted to get it done!" versus maintainers who know they have to live with code contributions for years.- Zero-effort pasting LLM output as reply to real people's thoughtful questions. (At least the author acknowledged what they were doing that time.)- It doesn't matter that it's hard to review because "AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works."- "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."If this is our new world then it's going to turbocharge maintainer burnout. :dumpster_fire: (If you don't want to read a quite long often depressing thread, would still recommend reading this well reasoned comment by one of the maintainers:https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-3556593972 )
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Ud7od6n5FrPE17cu by abrasive@digipres.club
       2025-11-22T01:50:56Z
       
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       @projectgus holy crap what a shitshow! thanks for boosting this~This whole "revolution" is highlighting to me a lot of work that our culture labels an "overhead", implying a waste of time, and how much value is actually in that work.The canonical example in software is developing and using a mental model of how software works, while lines of code are really a side-effect rather than the main show.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Ud7uLFYOXD7Zhwci by abrasive@digipres.club
       2025-11-22T01:53:40Z
       
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       @projectgus But it's equally true in other fields! One I'm heavily exposed to is doctors' notes - there's this big push to do auto transcription, whatever, but then LLM summarisation for the doctor's records. Talking to the doctors I know well, they spend enormous amounts of time and energy writing notes after interacting with patients - viewed by many as overhead again, but in their view it's a critical part of, essentially, validating (or invalidating) their understanding of what's going on!
       
 (DIR) Post #B0UdC4lkj728cU5kki by projectgus@aus.social
       2025-11-22T04:45:04Z
       
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       @abrasive 100%, it's honestly scary. And a real indictment of many people's relationship with thinking.I'm surprised pro-AI people don't address this more, because I don't think LLMs are totally useless[*] but the consequences of using them excessively and uncritically don't help convince people of that, either. I guess excessive use does help line go up.[*] I do think their benefits aren't worth the significant societal and energy demand costs, but yeah...