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Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by sublinear »

theamk wrote: post #213
sublinear wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just so you know, the frontend framework wars started and ended pretty quickly in the latter half of the 2010s. It was the downstream effect of the browser wars settling down and W3C making big moves on getting vendors to finally implement standards that were sorely needed. It had nothing to do with web dev culture.

I dunno, here is an entrant from 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071024 (not a JS dev myself, but I read HN so I see those posts every once in a while..)

The most urgent needs in frontend web dev were components and state management.

Vue and React won out, and I still don't see that changing for the foreseeable future on the vast majority of corporate web apps. This remaining split is just coke vs pepsi. Basically, a meaningless distinction and stable.

I don't doubt there will always be new tools, but a lot of HN doesn't see the forest for the trees when it comes to web. So many people chime in ignorantly just to be bullies and spread FUD and self-promote. I think that strategy not going to work again for a while. Everyone is very burned out on that overplayed game in all aspects of life, not just web dev.

If anyone is interested in frontend dev, LLMs only further entrench this situation. Now is the time to be creative with mature tools and learn a thing or two. The web summer is upon us, not an autumn of dying tools nor a winter of AI replacing people.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by DavCreator »

arnaudsm wrote: post #12

Misleading title, there's another major reason: it's an embargo agreement violation that jeopardizes Linux support on PS5. https://x.com/theflow0/status/2099987019954831744

https://xxcancel.com/maximelabonne/status/210013712126482890...

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by surgical_fire »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #167
latexr wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You completely misunderstood the point. In no way do I mean that someone has to suffer for someone else to thrive. We could (and should) all thrive and have our needs met. I’m just saying the term is relative, like “tall” and “short”. If we were all the same height, no one would be tall or short, we’d just be. If we all had the same amount of money, no one would be rich or poor.

An economy isn't a zero-sum game. Wealth doesn't just pop into existence when someone in the government clicks a button on a screen. Money is created that way, but wealth isn't. It has to be created by creating something that someone else values enough to pay for willingly. No one has to lose anything, in the sense that no one has to give up more than they think the product or service is worth to them. In your exampl…

Wealth, like gravity, distorts everything around it with excessive concentration.

It matters little how wealth is created. No one has to lose anything for the excessive concentration of wealth to cause the lives of everyone to be worse.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by charcircuit »

arnaudsm wrote: post #12

Misleading title, there's another major reason: it's an embargo agreement violation that jeopardizes Linux support on PS5. https://x.com/theflow0/status/2099987019954831744

It does not jeopardize Linux support for PS5. You can already run it on the PS5.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by charcircuit »

gbil wrote: post #65
sva_ wrote: post #33

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> The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony. Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually (which probably took a significant amount of time.) I can pa…

>I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to legally purchase the game and also enjoy linux. They agreed to wait, but not a day passed and they decided to waste it instead. This guy has used on working with people that understand the scene, it seems that they were in contact, they agreed on something and then the next day they did something different. This is reall…

There was already a third party that found the exploit before it was reported. It's clear that it was essentially not a secret anymore.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by charcircuit »

IslandRebel wrote: post #18

> “Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony,” the modder said on social media. “I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to legally purchase the game and also enjoy linux. They agreed to wait, but not a day passed and they decided to waste it instead.” If one user could have found this using…

A second AI user found it before the bug got reported.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by hkchad »

dmitrygr wrote: post #183
Aurornis wrote: post #181

Person 1 finds an exploit the old fashioned way. Keeps it secret because they’re doing some PS5 Linux work and want to keep it unpatched until GTA6 releases in 2 weeks. I don’t have a PS5 but I assume new games might require a firmware update to play? Person 2 uses an LLM and finds the same exploit. Person 1 asks Person 2 not to report it and collect the bounty until GTA6 is released. Person 2 agrees. Person 3 also f…

> earned the bounty Yeah, nothing like the hard work of typing "look at this binary and find a bug" The sweat, the tears it must have taken!

Tell us you know nothing of how AI development work without telling us.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by ethbr1 »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #175
glaslong wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar to sending a "Let Me Google That For You" except somehow because it was an LLM not Google, they've forgotten it's more insulting than helpful, and aren't even in on the joke they themselves are making.

I mean I can't speak for everyone but in my mind, sending lmgtfy was not only always insulting, it was meant to be. It's saying "I know you have access to the tools you need to answer this question, why are you asking me, and here's some instructions on how you use this tool in the future so you don't need to be asking me foolish questions." And while I generally believe we should be pro-social in our communications…

The issue with LLM copypaste by non-expert humans, and it took me a while to realize this, is ego.

What they feel like when they do it: "Man, I'm fucking brilliant. Look at me using new technology well. I was always the key provider of value here."

What they hear when you call out AI copypaste as less useful: "None of that is true."

Now we can debate on the factual merit of both sides, but that doesn't change the feelings.

Unfortunately, I don't see a way to change the feelings, because that dopamine burst of making non-experts feel like experts is something all the AI labs have a HUGE financial incentive to maximize in their products.

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Post by jeremyjh »

Marsymars wrote: post #131
jeremyjh wrote: post #102

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These exist. Very elaborate systems in many cases. Otherwise Hermes would probably have 30,000. Like a lot of agent tools they merge a ton of slop though so I wouldn’t consider them leaders.

> Otherwise Hermes would probably have 30,000. It already does!

I thought you must have meant open issues but no, they have 29K open PRs right now. 54,000 closed! Which is a heroic achievement.

I remember teknium stressing when he had 1500 open PRs.

Re: PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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Post by antibarbarus »

Too many people are fixating on AI and missing the point. Oh the dev was salty because people can use AI, oh he's just angry that an LLM can do his work now and his skills are becoming "useless"...It's not about AI, it's about the community?

The guy is clearly burned out, fighting an uphill battle, and feeling like it's no longer worth it. He could have reported the bug and taken the money, but he didn't. To judge him for feeling upset that someone else did that, and not give him credit for not taking the money in order to contribute more to the community, is... well it's a choice, I guess.

The LLM wave hasn't really produced this upswell of terrific apps or ideas the "common man" would've made if he only knew how to code. It's just slop, usually made at the level of the lowest common denominator, literal bespoke software nothing can coalesce around. The exceptions are few and far between, and they usually started before AI and adapted to using it as an existing community.

If thisnsort of behaviour is going to become the norm for the future, there will be no future, and I'd want to get out too? There will always be the one guy that's just hungry enough to not care about others and they'll take the money. No community can form around that, it'll never even get a chance to start up under such conditions.

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