Posts by josh@joshtriplett.org
 (DIR) Post #B5Mb3Qppf4WpHaIcbY by josh@joshtriplett.org
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       Talking with them is good. Helping to educate them is good. Making it sound as if what they are doing is okay is *not*.There is a big difference between offering an olive branch to people who *might* be productive contributors in the *future*, and telling them that what they're doing *now* is okay.The best AI policy remains "do not contribute any LLM-written content, ever". You have published a post that makes it easier for people who oppose such policies to cite your "olive branch" when arguing against it, and it is not obvious from your post that you do not want that to happen.I don't want to see people *abused* for using LLMs. I do want them to understand that what they're doing is not okay and not welcome and not a positive contribution.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Mb3U0ZrZuF7mLkGm by josh@joshtriplett.org
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       My first paid software development was in VBA. I did some of my first FOSS work and experimentation on a proprietary system (Windows). I benefited heavily from MinGW/MSYS. I appreciated having bridges available into the Open Source world; I would have had a harder time if they weren't.But I also appreciated that, when I was doing so, I had access to plenty of guidance, and knew that I was on the starting point of a road, and not done yet.