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j_bumtoday at 4:43 AM0 repliesview on HN

I’m not sure if the analogy is yours, but the scribe note really struck a chord with me.

I’m not a professionally trained SWE (I’m a scientist who does engineering work). LLMs have really accelerated my ability to build, ideate, and understand systems in a way that I could only loosely gain from sometimes grumpy but mostly kind senior engineers in overcrowded chat rooms.

The legality of all of this is dubious, though, per the parent. I GPL licensed my FOSS scientific software because I wanted it to help advance biomedical research. Not because I wanted it to help a big corp get rich.

But then again, maybe code like mine is what is holding these models back lol.