alt Hacker NewsCurrently the top one has a nice kind of supervillain flair to it:
> Denying it is denying human nature, Mr. Bond, and the gods tend to punish the hubris of denying nature.
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It's nuts how strong the reactions are. This is a rather permissive policy: tests and changes 15 lines are fully allowed.
I believe LWN comments are chronological, so the top one will remain the top one.
My heuristic that any argument, regardless of the topic, that relies on 'it's just human nature' is bullshit keeps being proven right.
That guy is stupid, the part of human nature containing dishonesty also houses "following the path of least resistance", which means that these people will simply contribute to another leading compiler without these rules.
So the real question is: what's LLVM policy?
Lwn.net is the last place I would have expected prophets to lecture us on gods plan for large language models.