yep, that’s basically my thought.

“if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” is what my momma taught me.

if it’s malicious that’s one thing, if it’s free and open source who gives a rats ass how it was made.

oh no your free thing you didn’t pay for gets abandoned? why don’t you take up the reins?

just feels like asking a lot of people and giving them nothing in return

Fair points, I concede.

As someone who has built a lot of software it’s hard to see people treat LLMs as useless when they are shooting themselves in the foot by doing so.

anecdotally, I’ve built a lot of projects and abandoned them because I ran out of time. With an LLM to reduce the input effort I actually think I would’ve maintained them longer.

do you have a source which backs up what you’re claiming?

it shouldn’t matter.

these tools are here to stay.

Oh yeah, 100% agree the future is local. I think we’ll have dedicated chips that have specific models burned on to them to run ultra fast and efficiently.

The mainframe style of computing always goes out of vogue as soon as it can because it sucks

sure - but the unpaid volunteer building your free and open source software wants to go faster so they can spend less of their valuable time on it.

In-general, if you feel this way, lead by example. Fork or contribute but don’t just complain

So do I. You can structure and use the tools responsibly.

Two things I really like using LLMs for right now:

1). Search complex codebases for summaries of “how does this work”. Especially if you are working outside of a project you normally work in, but your code still utilizes it and you want to understand some behavior (or at least know where to look).

2.) PR reviews. I’ve been building a custom skill for awhile now that does a great second pass on PRs. I do my initial review, then sic the LLM on it. It often turns up small things I overlooked that are worth addressing.

Currently, I use LLMs in more of a read-only manner, but I have had success in giving them well-structured easier tickets, if your project has good guidelines and you use the planning mode. You need to have an understanding of where you are working to even utilize these.

I know it’s an unpopular take, because the hive mind wants LLMs to fail SO bad here, but I think there is a usecase for these long-term for B2B software dev.

That said, I generally disagree with the shoving LLMs into things. There are a lot of wasteful examples where companies replace a perfectly good deterministic thing with a token generator and then it gets worse.

yes - God forbid people try to use tools to enable them to get things done faster. If folks worked in software they’d see that LLMs will not be going away there. Folks need to understand that FOSS is not an exception here. They’re welcome to fork and maintain things thanklessly themselves if they dislike it.

exact same story as I. have also been eyeballing NixOS lol. big time investment for me though

yeah good GUIs are really important for people who use a lot of programs lol.

I can’t remember everything at once, I’ve got better things to do

ChromeOS and Android both prove that you CAN provide an experience sans terminal.

I think anything with flatpaks or snap store will be in a pretty good spot

it is exactly what I think it is. you can use your own certa

it’s quite modular. I would argue that each individual component does follow that ethos

I mean, that entirely applies for self hosted git as well

if you’ve ever used one then you know that that is indeed it

it is unusable

I’m glad it works for you, but this would not work at my company. We have much stricter network controls

Yeah, go ahead and install your own Linux distro. Now you can’t authenticate to the internal network or use any of the services.

At the end of the day, corporate being able to manage Linux is what makes it possible to be used in an enterprise environment. There are regulatory and auditing requirements that would otherwise make Linux not an option.

Many of us find ourselves to be more effective on Linux. There is some business requirement in terms of the service runs on Linux, but they didn’t have to let people have it on their personal workstations

that’s not true if it’s company managed

I would say service based