A human in control. In #curl development.
@bagder my main issue with AI is de-skilling. Even if AI were better and had none of the ethical and moral issues the speed at which you loose your skills with it is very fast.
And every time I talk about this with AI hypers, they reply with “discipline” which I don’t find like a good solution to anything.
This is not a rant, is an honest question? Do you see any solution to that?
@bagder I got to "introduces sand in the machine" and thought ... now there's a pearl of wisdom!
@bagder “curl is developed and driven by humans, assisted by tools.”
@bagder curl may not have quite the scale where these sorts of things become necessary - but you might find this an interesting read anyway: https://pauldjohnston.medium.com/agentic-development-best-practices-0e23ab07c1f8 (and also https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusiasts-are-in-a-race-against if you haven't already read it)
@bagder Sane approach: Use the best tools you can get, but use them with care, without giving up on quality or best practice.
@bagder Still one question remains open, as you do not cover it in your blog post: How about ecologic sustainability? What are your plans to keep resource use, be it AI tools, be it CI under control? Do you measure energy use? Do you have policies on energy sources that are permitted?
@taschenorakel so no, we don't have such policies. Can anyone actually?
@bagder "Easiest" approach on such policies is running all these machines at your "decarbonized home": There you decide on which electricity provider get used. There you can decide against natural gas, coal and the like. You could computers' heat to fill reservoirs to use them night, or even winter. That kind of things.
Still, with the most powerful AI models not being available for local use and machines able to run them being prohibitive expensive, that not feasible right now, for AI.
@taschenorakel we have no means to sensibly measure that nor to compare pros/cons when it comes to spending vs outcome
