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HN relatively, is a very intellectual part of the internet, yet even still, it's really common to see very uneducated opinions here. Not that everyone needs to be very educated, but posts with plainly wrong assumptions and biases shouldn't go completely unchecked so rampantly.
What strikes me about the post is that it goes to great lengths to talk about proper statistical methods, but then is written in the most clearly biased language ("what stupid AI haters get wrong etc). If you want people to take your study seriously, why wreck it by coming across with such a strong prior bias? I stopped reading...
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I've always noticed, within any subject involving tools, there are people who like the tools, and some people who like to use the tools to do something else. With programming, I've always been in the later: it's a tool that allows me to do what I actually love, which is problem solving, system level thinking , and providing some nice solution to that problem, that happens to be through software. So, I have an absolut…
I am anti-vibe coding if that meets your criteria? Reviewing vibe-coded PRs and features has been utterly exhausting over the past few months. I work on critical, mature software - a small change in behaviour can mean data loss or non-compliance with regulations for our customers. The biggest problem with AI PRs is the sheer amount of churn, extra code and lack of intent with the PRs it generates. The only way I can…
I don't have a good analogy but the immediate one that comes to mind is treating AI like a junior developer that you're mentoring. If you know what you're doing you can iterate quickly; if you don't then its a whole other story.
Claude built me a Markdown editor - I designed it, set coding standards, etc. It coded it to my spec. The output is in my opinion not bad and is very usable (for me - I use it daily now). Probably would have cost me north of $50k to get a team of seasoned devs to build it to the current level of polish. https://github.com/emrul/md
Tl;dr: Yes, it did. Here is some math showing that you shouldn’t care about that.
For those commenting, I suggest you read the post linked by the rsync author: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0 (Disclosure: while I haven't talked with him in years, Tridge was my colleague and mentor for many years. I feel it is worth considering his view before joining a crusade)
I think it's pretty sad that he even had to write it. Quite a lot of judgement from people who aren't paying his bills.
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"Disabling attribution of LLM-generated code is fraud, because you’re saying you wrote the code." Should there by attribution for Google or Stack Overflow copy/paste? Who should we bully about this?
Yes, in fact, this is why people who do that are looked down upon. They are in fact committing fraud if they do not attribute the code in their commit properly, because by committing it they’re claiming to have rights by virtue of authorship that they do not have. (Namely, the right to contribute that code to the project,.) They may also be committing copyright infringement, depending on the copyright and license sta…
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Why did you the admin allow such ragebait to stay on the front page then? Is that the kind of low effort posts we want around here? Just a link to a github comment of a screenshot? You're complicit here in fueling the harassment of an open source project
I don't have enough background info to understand what you're referring to here. Even if you're right, though, you shouldn't be posting comments that break the site guidelines.
People opening issues just to rant against an open source project is acceptable content for HN?
How is that even allowed in the first place without getting flagged/removed?
And every time that happens the project gets brigaded from HN users
It's always the most insufferable people that make the biggest hullabaloo about a project they have nothing to do with and have never contributed to. People with literally zero skin in the game using the AI boogeyman to push some agenda or some anti-agenda. OSS has become so incredibly toxic in the past decade, and consumers of OSS have become extremely entitled. I run a smallish project with ~1k stars and I've stopp…
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The value of the Claude attribution is that you can tell at a glance who used AI. I don't care about the advertising angle. We all know Claude by now. I want some indicator that AI was used.
At my employer, if AI is not used, it shows up on your performance report and you’ll be told if you don’t start using it, you will be dismissed. I work at a medium sized successful YC-backed SaaS. So here, the attribution is meaningless - they look at your Bedrock and LLM API calls as well as Claude Code history.