why? I think having a stated policy on LLM use is increasingly unavoidable for FOSS projects

what if the users legitimately don't want AI written software?

You have to think twice if you really want to cater to these 'legitimate users' then. In Steam's review section you can find people give negative reviews just because the game uses Unity or Unreal. Should devs cater to them and develop their in-house engine?

maybe? devs should weigh the feedback and decide what they think will best serve the project. open source is, especially, always in conversation with the community of both users and developers.

> open source is, especially, always in conversation with the community of both users and developers

Not necessarily. sqlite doesn't take outside contributions, and seems to not care too much about external opinion (at least, along certain dimensions). sqlite is also coincidentally a great piece of software.

Then they have the right to not use it: Stoat does not have a monopoly on chat software.

Then they can go and use software that's not AI written.

you can get a 100Gb normal pcie card like a MCX416A for less than $100 if you're willing to flash them

I'm very skeptical, but this is also something that's easy to compare using the original as a reference implementation, right? providing lots of random input and fixing any disparities is a classic approach for rewriting/porting a system

This only works up to a certain point. Given that the author openly admits they don't know/understand Rust, there is a really high likelihood that the LLM made all kinds of mistakes that would be avoided, and the dev is going to be left flailing about trying to understand why they happen/what's causing them/etc. A hand-rewrite would've actually taught the author a lot of very useful things I'm guessing.

It seems like they have something like differential fuzzing to guarantee identical behavior to the original, but they still are left with a codebase they cannot read...

some ARM chips can do PCIe endpoint mode, and the kernel has support for pretending to be an nvme ssd https://docs.kernel.org/nvme/nvme-pci-endpoint-target.html

probably worth mentioning they discontinued the ICE Macan (and 718 Cayman/Boxster) in Europe?

also they put a dinky 2KWh battery in some 911s

I think it's also that hardware costs are so easy to quantify compared to engineering labor and software dependency maintenance etc

mad men is fiction

Okay read anything about David Ogilvy

>every "no-code will replace developers" wave actually creates more developer jobs, not fewer

you mean "created", past tense. You're basically arguing it's impossible for technical improvements to reduce the number of programmers in the world, ever. The idea that only humans will ever be able to debug code or interpret non-technical user needs seems questionable to me.

This doesn’t seem immediately false. Industrial society creates more complexity and specializations. There is more work to do all the time.

Actual AI seems like a possibility here.

Also the percentage of adults working has been dropping for a while. Retired used to be a tiny fraction of the population that’s no longer the case, people spend more time being educated or in prison etc.

Overall people are seeing a higher standard of living while doing less work.

> Also the percentage of adults working has been dropping for a while.

There are lots of negative reasons for this that aren’t efficiency. Aging demographics. Poor education. Increasing complexity leaves people behind.

Efficiency is why things continue to work as fewer people work. Social programs, bank account, etc are just an abstraction you need a surplus or the only thing that changes is who starves.

Social programs often compensate for massive distortion in the economy. For example, SNAP benefits both the poor and the businesses where SNAP funds is spent on, but that's because a lot of unearned income goes to landowners, while preventing people from employing laborers and starting businesses. SNAP merely ameliorate a situation that shouldn't had arise in the first place.

So, yes, reasons other than efficiency explain why people aren't working, as well why there are still poor people.

Only the relatively tiny homeless population is poor by historic standards. And that’s almost exclusively mental health issues and addiction.

Now we can set arbitrary thresholds for what standard of living every American should have but even knowing people on SNAP it’s not that low.

Millions of working Americans don’t have cars. Also, you can make the median wage in the US without any collage education.

Poverty still exists, but vast inflation of what is considered’a basic standard of living’ hides a great deal of progress. People want to redefine illiteracy to mean being unable to use the internet not by the standards of the past.

> Millions of working Americans don’t have cars.

How would you describe the level of wealth of those Americans outside of metro areas?

Literally across the full spectrum. A surprising number of communities exist outside the US road network.

> Efficiency is why things continue to work as fewer people work.

Yes, but it’s not why there are fewer adults in the workforce.

Yes it is, if we still needed 90+% of the population to work or people starved that’s a self correcting system. Less than that work and you have less people.

> if we still needed 90+% of the population to work or people starved

I actually didn’t say that. And the twisting of words is the source of confusing

You can argue about all the many secondary reasons for each of the different groups (retirees, prisoners, etc), but only one thing is required for every group.