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#22Better PR descriptions explain why.
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#23Another reason to switch from GitHub, I don't want to strengthen this ecosystem. AI-generated description for PR? gg. IMHO it will drastically reduce real productivity for those who will remain on this platform (but still increasing whatever fake metric [accepted pull requests? stars?] people love to check)
Could you explain your reasoning? You expect that these tools will create more work to get from point A to point B rather than less?
In short: because there will be "current junk pull requests" (see microchanges for readme) but increased x100, if you want to use AI at least write description by yourself, orelse there os no point in your pr as authors might make it themselves
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#24Here. We. Go. I made the analogy a few days ago about how all modern manufacturing and machining processes were essentially bootstrapped from two fairly flat stones. Its going to be interesting to see how the acceleration in improvement of the tools for "making things" changes in the LLM age.
I love the "Origins of Precision" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58 that goes into this very topic.
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#25How have people been thinking about licensing and attribution when it comes to using AI code assistance tools like this? In my personal work, I'm avoiding it since being trained on "publicly available code from GitHub" feels too risky for me if I were to say accidentally pull in GPL code to a private project.
That's exactly why my projects are GPL, so I don't have to worry about that.
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#26Here. We. Go. I made the analogy a few days ago about how all modern manufacturing and machining processes were essentially bootstrapped from two fairly flat stones. Its going to be interesting to see how the acceleration in improvement of the tools for "making things" changes in the LLM age.
There's something really satisfying about using a tool that makes you more productive, even more so if you built the tool.
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#27How have people been thinking about licensing and attribution when it comes to using AI code assistance tools like this? In my personal work, I'm avoiding it since being trained on "publicly available code from GitHub" feels too risky for me if I were to say accidentally pull in GPL code to a private project.
I have been using it on a fairly large project, and in practice I find it rarely, if ever, spits out anything other than something that resembles what I would have written next anyways, taking context clues from the file I'm editing.
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#28At which point do we not need to understand what is in front of us?
eg: The Code.
I was using chatgpt, with a groovy project (havent used groovy in years), I prompted chatgpt for an answer, and it gave me a solution. The solution (to me) was a bit obfuscated, but it worked. Since I'm only using groovy to figure out this one task, it would've been extremely easy for me to not check what the solution did, and just keep going with my day. Luckily, I'm curious and wanted to know how things worked.
What if we increasingly stop to care, because of the confidence instilled by the media.
"It can make errors" but also "This show SIGNIFICANT improvements over last generation (which tbh was pretty okay)"
A lot of dis/misinformation.
I like using copilot/chatgpt, but it's incredibly hard to believe that we wont just become 100% reliant on this tool, and coding will be something akin to assembly code to engineers.
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#30With increases in productivity from systems like this, and a guaranteed bottom line improvement from cutting labor and running leaner teams, has anyone here heard of any large corporations using LLM's as an excuse for headcount reduction yet? In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if this has already played a large behind the scenes role in the layoffs at Google/Microsoft.
Everyone I know is understaffed. I think the outcome is roadmaps deliver more reliably not reduce headcount.