alt Hacker News> Would you also say that "someone who wants to use an IDE / LSP features to code and not give credit to the IDE / LSP is the worst kind of person"?
That's a false equivalency.
> If not, what is the difference between the two for you?
Let's start this out right: if they're equivalent, first you explain to us why you think so.
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axutio • yesterday at 4:46 PM
I just don't agree that it's a false equivalency. I see them both as "tools I use to get the job done". For me, the job is not "writing code" - it is "deliver feature", "fix bug", and the accountability, responsibility, and communication that comes with it.
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> That's a false equivalency.
How is it false?
> Let's start this out right: if they're equivalent, first you explain to us why you think so.
I think it should be really obvious how they're equivalent: both are the result of a program running on a computer, and not the result of in-the-moment cognition by a moral agent or moral patient. Of course the LLM is just a tool. Models can literally be downloaded as ordinary files. There is not some threshold to cross where some configurations of bits on a disk deserve "credit" for work and others do not.