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martin-ttoday at 3:42 AM1 replyview on HN

No, you're the dishonest one. The only bullet point a reasonable person might disagree with it "99.9999%". The rest is true.

- Many real devs criticize "AI". Documented: https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s?ref=i...

- LLMs are trained without respecting the licenses of the original work, not even giving attribution which almost all OSS licenses require. AGPL required derivative works to be also AGPL - this should include the model and all its output for any reasonable meaning of derived work.

- SOTA models even today produce absolute garbage. A week ago, Claude Sonnet 4.6 tried to call one constructor from the body of another in C# using syntax which doesn't exist. Less glaring issues are completely normalized. This is why "agentic" generation is so popular today - it puts guard rails around the slop.

- I and other devs I've talked to are not interested in the mechanical writing of code but in the additional understanding which comes from engaging deeply with the problem and solution.


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operatingthetantoday at 5:38 AM

You did not address my point. None of those things are stopping the future you are apparently afraid of. They are simply a coping mechanism.