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@SuperDicq @sun you can not like what someone does but still respect them. e.g. i don't like the church, but i don't shit on people active in the church if they don't do harm to anyone - usually they even do good. moon works to do nice things for fedi, i don't need to shit on this. i only find the irony in that scrapers are an annoyance for self hosting llm generated code funny, but those scrapers are annoying for me as well.

@bonifartius @SuperDicq I respect the good arguments against llms. It’s a fact that the legal provenance of llm code hasn’t been legally tested yet and it could go either way. I don’t give a si for shit about power usage or building data centers in the abstract other than how they affect people’s property through externalities

@sun @SuperDicq i don't think the environmental arguments about power usage or datacenters are very good, especially when considering other opinions the same people hold on certain wars etc. the datacenter water usage is a problem, but using fresh water for cooling is pretty stupid anyway. putting datacenters on a green meadow is retarded as well, put them in some industrial area. the issue is HOW things are done, imo.

@SuperDicq @lain @sun I'm probably incredibly weird in that regard, as I enjoy writing in general, having written a number of short stories in my free time--nothing near actually worth anyone's time, but still. And yet I find writing documentation of any kind, even short READMEs, very much boring.
@sun @lain @SuperDicq Learning the hard way isn't always necessarily the better way, but yes, I absolutely agree that there's merit to being able to write functional code without fancy tools like LLMs and whatnot. Though I'm not really a good programmer, so whatever I weigh in with here in regards to "how one should do it" would probably just come across as stupid and no one should even care what I say about it.

Overall, the way I got started with C was probably just about the worst way possible, and I would have been better off reading some proper books on it. But I'm incredibly thick when it comes to learning, don't have the patience for it, and oftentimes end up just smashing my head against things until it kinda sorta sticks.