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Thank you for your reply.

I am currently having a ride with chatgpt allowing me to write applications at 3 times the speed compared to before (where before may be "never" for some technologies) and I am happy for everyone contributing to this.

But all your points are well grounded, I will have to figure out a way to think about them, while keeping my day job.



ChatBLT and Copilot break every license of every repo they were trained on. Even the most liberal project license states you have to include, and not modify, the license file. So you’re glad for code thieves. Interesting…

So to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re not just another dude who has hitched their financial wagon to this current AI slopfest, I just retried a question about writing OSSEC rules and the response, while convincing looking, was completely wrong. Again.


I am sorry you are so bitter. My reply did contain some ambivalence.


I don't begrudge you for trying to keep your job. I myself do things for my own job that I consider questionable. I guess it's all something we should think about.


Faster is not necessarily better, and if 2/3 of your value comes from LLMs, that doesn’t bode well for job security.

There’s a lot that engineers can due that are well beyond the limits of LLMs. If you really want to keep your day job, I would really commit yourself to that gap when you can!


> If 2/3 of your value comes from LLMs

I would put that phrase the other way around.

The time freed here gives me more time to spend on what actually brings value.

My primary job is not to write applications.

And if it was, I would not include "the process of editing lines of code" in my job description.

I am not afraid to be fired, but at the same time there is no discussion about the ethics of using AI and whether ethics is a good reason not to in, my workplace.


Ah my bad, mentioning writing applications 3x faster and narrative ties to a day job led me to assume your day job way writing applications :)


Given that AI output can't be copyrighted, how do you protect and distribute the project you are working on?


I don't know? I guess I don't worry about that. Maybe I am Borg.




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