alt Hacker NewsOn the contrary, this is performative.
I've been in the media space, so I've seen artists do this for years now.
It's fucking bullshit. It's like handmade goods (some of which turned out to be sweatshop produced anyway).
At the end of the day all code is ephemeral. It provides value in the here and now. It doesn't doesn't last forever.
Make the thing do the thing and stop worrying about how it was made. None of your code will be around in 200 years.
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Can't wait for the saga where people will start bikeshedding about whether a manually written bit of code was actually manually written.
I can already envision the contribution guidelines. You must install cameras all around you, like when taking a certification exam, and have them record you typing it all out, eye tracking included.
Only to then still get accused of "cheating" through I don't know, doing it all head of time with AI help, practicing the solution, and then just re-enacting it all.
putting aside the lack of quality of most LLM-written code (even the big scary tech demo-y stuff), there is more to life than this pragmatism of "value adds." you can just write code because you want to.
this sentiment is also very funny considering the subject matter is reimplementing coLinux, which no one uses anymore, except as a toy, for an operating system no one uses anymore, except as a toy.
Actually it's quite useful information. As soon as I see another useless "ai coded" project I immediately stop reading/caring about it. Fuck your slop code. Nobody wants that shit.
It's not bullshit to me. I'm interested in seeing what a human made, not what a clanker made.
I hope that everyone performatively produces high quality software without resorting to some statistical model.