Drawing a dick on a foggy mirror is art.

Plenty of people think their art is awful, even when it isn’t, programmers especially so.

Its not about just respect for your own art, but respect for everyone else in the art form. If you wrote bad code but put in effort, you still put effort into the art, therefore its not an insult to the medium itself, and the community around it.

Furthermore, how do you expect to get better at that art when you have the easel do so much of the painting for you?

Programming is an art and using LLMs makes you as much of a hack as a visual artist resorting to Stable Diffusion.

Everything matters. From high-level architecture to little details of implementation.

Last time I checked us programmers had preferences for details as small as tabs vs. spaces, or curly bracket placement.

You think I’m going to let a fucking machine make decisions about implementation for me?

Let alone high-level architectual ones?

Everything about your software should have intent, and its impossible for LLMs to actually intend to do something.

So you can fuck right off with that, and while you’re at it, stop poisoning the worlds codebases (and drinking supply.)

Yes I think if software companies put money into easy to setup home servers that would be better than what’s available to the average consumer.

I might be the sort of person to keep a 24u rack in their closet, but you shouldn’t have to to reap the benefits.

I mean Jesus, even cloud providers know this. Just look at AWS Outposts.

Funny you mention. Ran pfsense as a router for years (still do.)

I had a Ubiquiti AP but hate shaving to run a VM or own separate hardware just to properly configure it. Especially considering it was the only ubiquiti gear I had.

Ended up installing openwrt on it and ended up with what I actually wanted out of an access point.

I use dlinks and what not now, whatever is cheap, has a decent radio, and supports openwrt.

Theres always ways aroubd that too…

I know several people just from work alone.

I work in enterprise IT for context.

If you’re willing to spend a coupla bucks a month you can setup wireguard and iptables on a vps, and port forward through the public IP on your VPN server to yourbhome router via the wg interface.

Also good for anonymous home hosting if you pay with xmr, turn off logging (bonus pts for luks and RO filesystems) and use the right host.

Skipping the sponsored segment doesn’t net the creator less money. They’re paid before the video gets uploaded, or at worst by view count iirc.

You guys lag behind in this sorta shit, I’ll have time to figure out somewhere else safe in the meantime.

I’m not living in a place that will likely punish me for the type of medicine i take and also restricts my access to get it outside of the system.

Ill throw my data on an offshore vps, load my lappy up with a dummy normal looking win 11 install, and drive my ass across to Canada if it keeps getting worse.

Fuck that.

Yeah its not the minimalist distros were all used to running but it still is a Unix OS with root privileges no?

Either way its the dudes work PC, probably doesn’t have a choice.

The (non-financial) crime is the best part.

I love taking estrogen I bought offa onion sites :)

Tbf if its booting from ROM and doing the same job its not going to degrade.

Graphics cards from 20 years ago will still play 20 year old games just fine, its not like that computers job is gonna change anytime soon.

My issue isn’t that I don’t understand what LLMs are being used by programmers for. I get writing boilerplate and unit tests can probably be done by software well enough, at least when supervised.

Ill be honest, that’s not even my real issue.

My real issue is that programming, devops, systems administration. All of these things are art forms, every bit of them. From high-level application architecture down to the tiniest details of implementation.

Like how much of a library you choose to include, what you name your variables, what type of loops you use to iterate through data. How you choose to format and comment your code.

Giving these choices to the machine is like the painter giving their brush to it.

Just like images generated by stable diffusion will never be worth their fully-human painted equivalent. So too will LLM-developed programs fail to hold that value.

For what its worth, this isnt new. I’ve held contempt for VC-worshipping developers who see programming as a means to an end far longer than LLMs have been used for serious work.

Imagine letting an entertainment product write your code for you. Why the fuck are you doing this if you don’t even like the act of programming?

I’m surprised no one else has answered mediawiki. Love my mediawiki instance.

Yeah as someone who does both ansible is for repeatable multi-system commands like telling everything to update or configuring a local agent on every machine at once.

Its funny because the part of you that gets reincarnated isn’t your soul its the matter/energy from your body. Law of Conservation of energy and all.

Microsoft is already making use of more AI, and bug reports aren’t code?

No you’re right. I’m the perpetrator. I asked my awful fucking government run by pedophiles I totally approve of to do that. I totally want that instead of healthcare and basic human rights.

Its almost like if you’re not part of a small club of old kiddie fuckers or their direct lackeys, you’re getting fucked too.

There isn’t ‘a victim’ of these people. There’s fucking hundreds of millions if not billions us, and even more who are dead.

What do you want? Me to uselessly martyr myself so they’ll be another “stupid dangerous tranny” on the news for a week for people use against us before forgetting it happened?

What? What more is it you want me to fucking do? Wave my magic american wand that makes my government stop being run by garbage?