The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced developers and new developers alike. But there are trade-offs.
  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    So far the best AI tool use policy I’ve read, specially this bit:

    Your PR body should be providing context to other developers about why a change was made, and if your name is on it, we want your words and explanations, not an LLM’s. If you can’t explain what the LLM did, we are not interested in the change.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    27·
    21 hours ago

    Fuck AI, but a respectable stance.

    And then you have the ShareX developer, using a screenshot of an AI response to respond to a GitHub issue.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    20 hours ago

    What about the IP issues? Not even talking about the “ethics” of “ip theft via AI” or anything, you just know a company like Microsoft or Apple will eventually try suing an open source project over AI code that’s “too similar” to their proprietary code. Doesn’t matter if they’re doing the same to a much greater degree, all that matters is they have the resources to sue open source projects and not the other way around. If a tech company can get rid of the competition by abusing the legal system, you just know they will, especially if they can also play the "they’re knowingly letting their users use pirated media with their software” card on top of it.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      19 hours ago

      you just know a company like Microsoft or Apple will eventually try suing an open source project over AI code that’s “too similar” to their proprietary code.

      Doubt it. The incentives don’t align. They benefit from open source much more than are threatened by it. Even that “embrace, extent, extinguish” idea comes from different times and it’s likely less profitable than the vendor lock-in and other modern practices that are actually in place today. Even the copyright argument is something that could easily backfire if they just throw it in a case, because of all this questionable AI training.

      • Ferk@lemmy.ml
        3·
        5 hours ago

        And specially for Microsoft, they would be shooting their own foot if they were to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the development community over the legality of the use of AI tools like Copilot, which they themselves promote and sell.