Post by @jbz@indieweb.social

｢ What LLMs in Debian development will do, I fear, is eliminate any incentive to scrap boilerplate or reform policies that require a lot of other senseless human effort. If I had had access to LLMs 30 years ago, I might have just had them generate the rules files, replate with complexity. So they will make Debian even more firmly what it is, and ever less likely to explore what it could become ｣

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/

#debian #llm #aislop #vibecoding #opensource

Debian and the sirens

#vibecoding #aislop #debian #llm #opensource

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Edu

@eduzsh@mastodon.social 20 min. ago

@jbz If generating the rules file is free, who still budgets a week to delete half of it?

Debacle

@debacle@framapiaf.org 2 hr. ago

@jbz

I assume (= hope), that @joeyh is wrong here. Just because LLM AI contributions are allowed in #Debian now, it does not mean, that all or most DDs will use AI. I.e. the incentive to streamline tools and workflows will remain for unaltered to most of us.

AwoogaGeneral

@AwoogaGeneral@mastodo.neoliber.al 2 hr. ago

@jbz good quote. I have already heard tech bros start saying “why would anyone create a new programming language when LLMs exist” so that whole vibe is starting to take hold

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