GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
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@bekkaboo@girlcock.club Linux itself is heavily using AI models. Therefore, every Linux distribution moving to recent kernel versions is heavily built on top of using AI models. Creating a Linux distribution not heavily using it would require a hard fork of the Linux kernel and many other projects. It's unclear what would be accomplished by banning AI for a tiny portion of the code while continuing to use Linux, AOSP, Chromium and hundreds of other projects heavily using it. We'd still be benefiting from it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51749088

GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you’re coming from or why you’re so incredibly angry with us. It’s not justified and does not make sense.

  • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Why are coders so desperate to replace themselves with ai? Like you rarely hear of actual artists or writers using ai in such large waves as coders do. Sure you’ll get lots of people who have an idea for a story just have an llm do the work for them, but its less common to hear about established authors doing that. Just like how people who have an idea for a game will just have an llm write the code. Meanwhile professional coders seem thrilled to outsource their work to ai. Why???

    Edit: is it bc they don’t see their work as art like artists and writers do? Bc it is a form of art just like how mathematical formulas and stuff can be art

    (Obligatory not all coders. I know there are many that hate ai and hate being required to use it at work, but its really starting to feel like they’re in the minority)

    • boraginoru@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      There are different attitudes of engineers. Some are more results-oriented and see the code as just a means to an end. It’s difficult to get good at programming and AI makes it so you don’t really have to, so they gladly accept it as a way to build things faster.

      And then there’s me on the exact opposite end of that spectrum. I don’t care much at all for the end result except that it’s what allows me to get to do programming. I like the puzzle and figuring out how to make it all work line-by-line. AI takes away all of the fun part and it does it so terribly.

      Up til now both types of programmers got along decently well because building things correctly and quickly have usually taken similar paths. But with the advent of AI we’re now quite at odds with each other, and it’s been quite a pain for me.