alt Hacker NewsWhy do people fall for this. We're compressing knowledge, including the source code of SQLite into storage, then retrieve and shift it along latents at tremendous cost in a while loop, basically brute forcing a franken version of the original.
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foo42 • today at 8:35 AM
I agree.
While I'm generally sympathetic to the idea that humans and LLM creativity is broadly similar (combining ideas absorbed elsewhere in new ways), when we ask for something that already exists it's basically just laundering open source code
pjc50 • today at 9:43 AM
License laundering and the ability to not credit or pay the original developers.
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Because virtually all software is not novel. For each single partially novel thing, there are tens of thousands of crud apps with just slightly different flow and data. This is what almost every employed programmer does right now - match the previous patterns and produce a solution that's closer to the company requirements. And if we can brute force that quickly, that's beneficial for many people.