I disagree.

Theres nothing magical about copying code, throwing it into a database, and creating an LLM based on mass data. Moreover, its not ethical given the amount of data they had to pull and the licenses Microsoft had to ignore in order to make this work. Heck my little server got hit by the AI web crawlers a while back and DDOSed my tiny little site. You can look up their IP addresses and some of them look at the robots.txt, but a VAST majority did not.

There is a metric ton of lawsuits hitting the AI companies and they are not winning in all countries: https://sustainabletechpartner.com/topics/ai/generative-ai-lawsuit-timeline/

I just hate that they stole all that licensed code.

It feels so wrong that people are paying to get access to code…that others put out there as open source. You can see the GPL violations sometimes when it outputs some code from doom or other such projects. Some function made with the express purpose for that library, only to be used to make Microsoft shareholders richer. And to eventually remove the developer from the development. Its really sad and makes me not want to code on GitHub. And ive been on the platform for 15+ years.

And theres been an uptick in malware libraries that are propagating via Claude. One such example: https://www.greenbot.com/ai-malware-hunt-github-accounts/

At least with the open source models, you are helping propagate actual free (as in freedom) LLMs and info.

I just use https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter and call it a day. No AI required. Probably saves me a good 4 hours in the beginning of each project.

Almost all my projects have the same kind of setup nowadays. But thats just work. For personal projects, I use a subset-ish. Theres a custom Admin module that I use to make ALL classes into Django admin models and it takes one import, boom done.

7% last year. Being in a union is awesome.

This reads like a comic from !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

Excellent work.

I’m using piefed on Firefox via my phone lol. Oh no.

I don’t think they are on azure yeah?

Kinda. Less people used it back then so less eyes on downtime.

But its been a couple of times per month for a while now. And its causing delays at work. Here’s to hoping they mess up enough that we can switch to something better!

Yep at work gonna get a coffee.

If you ever want to mess with a developer, send that on a form as one of the answers and watch them tear their hair out.

I read an article that its the language openai recommends the most. Its not a good reason but it certainly helps.

Its a good question.

This bit me when we tried to use it via a beta build: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-rust-sudo-rs-change

Ubuntu is removing core utils and replacing them with supposedly plug and play replacements that work exactly the same. In practice its already breaking some builds ( https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Coreutils-Makeself ), which is unfortunate. I dont care if core utils are rust or not to be honest. But I DO want things to be rock solid stable in our environment.

There are MANY articles on techrights.org on rust and Microsoft as well, but I don’t know enough about the subject to verify any of the claims other than Microsoft seems to have a interest in getting people to use rust more. They are one of their biggest backers. And it would be unfortunate if yet another open source project becomes…influenced by MS and their needs.

Oh yeah those are fun. Ive come across projects just 6 months after creation that cant work if they have a small version update. So it just sits there for a LONG time before a senior dev (mostly me) decides to get grumpy and fix the dang thing.

CI/CD builds can help…but you have to have someone keep an eye out for potential issues and, in best case, have a development deploy actually test the dang things.

Except when you have to make iOS/Windows/Linux specific instructions to get it working haha.

We have the joke at work where it almost works all the time. As long as the base OS is the same. Also random updates to libraries that break the docker container. But thats less on Docker and more on base OS images that are provided (im looking at you Ubuntu and your “new” sudo…).

I love these kind of things lol.

Deltarune did something similar and even has a bit of dialog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWuqJ9h2vME

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Interesting breakdown. Its a hard market.

My last Two jobs were both referrals.

I think its part of the joke ;)

Hes also done some crazy stuff: https://aartaka.me/this-post-is-ed.html

Lol yeah.

https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs?t=103

Reminds me of this but with databases. Just pipe to dev/null