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as1297kjtoday at 11:25 AM5 repliesview on HN

What is the point of using packaging software that belongs to ClosedAI?

Astral people are already in the comments making pro AI coding statements. By using uv, you are literally supporting the people who want to make you unemployed for stock options.


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embedding-shapetoday at 11:32 AM

> By using uv, you are literally supporting the people who want to make you unemployed for stock options.

By using any FOSS or software produced by software developers and programmers, you are supporting the idea that computation can and should be automated, instead of having humans doing it. This is the origin of computing, and what we've been doing so far, and it continues to "eat the world" via automation, just like the past decades of it.

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ForceBrutoday at 12:53 PM

Well, it's fast. Perhaps "they" want me and everyone else unemployed, but it's not immediate and not particularly certain. However, I can use uv here and now to greatly simplify my workflows, so I use it.

never_inlinetoday at 1:46 PM

If you're going to be unemployed anyway, and they don't gain a single penny by you using it, then what does this protest gain?

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rjzzleeptoday at 12:33 PM

I think `pdm` is much nicer. I think if pdm had become a think earlier people would have switched from poetry to pdm rather than this uv thing which is a lot of different things at once.

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Chris2048today at 11:57 AM

> Astral people are already in the comments making pro AI coding statements.

I can't see any other comment on this post mentioning AI, did you just make this up?

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