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re: bsky38.com and everything. I had a bit of sleep on it (4hrs) I'm trying my best not to take a lot of it personally, and I do not fault or hold ill content for anyone who doesn't want to use bsky38 or is talking about it in anger w/ AI. The world sucks and a lot of that is thanks to AI usage.

Joyless scolds aren’t new. They dont have a point. They will always show up when somebody is having fun so they can take that away. It’s a weird antisocial behavior and we shouldn’t give them the w

People who aren’t using AI to code at this point are delusional or lying, trying to ride a horse down the highway and backing up the traffic instead of asking “what can we do to make cars safer and electric.” They have no ethical high ground

Yes, stealing the consumed, unlicensed, uncredited work of tens of thousands of past programmers is way faster than doing the work yourself. And definitely won't have any downsides longer term.

With licenses attached, as well as an expectation to give credit as well as submitting any improvements back to the original project. Does Claude follow the licenses of code that it's ingested? Does it submit improvements? Does it give credit? Would it be right for a human coder to act that way?

You might be surprised to learn that there have been _so many_ improvements submitted back to open source projects that the people who maintain them are struggling to keep up with it all. An interesting challenge is that each of those improvements needs to be reviewed, which is a lot of work!

Okay, neat! Does Claude give credit to the open source projects that it's taking code from? Does Claude abide by the license terms of the open source projects that it's taking code from? What if that license requires open-sourcing the code using it? Would a human acting that way be acceptable?

"We ALL steal code!"-people are really just telling on themselves at this point man

these insane engineers even made tools specifically to do it, `npm install {code-you-want-to-steal}`

any LLM trained on GPL licensed code that is not released freely back to the community is in violation of the license.

... no? the GPL does not contemplate statistical inference.