Unacceptable compared to what? the automated coding tool that never gets anything wrong? But that doesn’t exist. Compared to doing it myself? It would be, if I were better at web dev! but at the moment the comparison point is “no website at all” and it’s clearly better than that.
Have we became so anti-social that the only 2 options are to do it alone or not at all?
I’m afraid that I do understand your point of view—I feel myself very exhausted for the last few years so I was not helping my friends in open source lately, so they opted for coding assistants instead and now when I see the code I feel recoil from the AI slop and I do not wish to return to the project. If they want things done and I don’t “want” to help, what are their options?
Brave new world we live in, infinite productivity increase from zero to something for people who don’t have time to became good at a craft, burnout for a few of us who used to be good and well paid but became overwhelmed by the ever-ready Waluiging incompetent assistant attractor.
i was always antisocial; i literally don’t know how this worked in the Before Times. you… ask your buddy to write code for you? isn’t that a pretty big favor? i ask my friends software questions all the time, but that’s smaller. & i never touched open source contribution because it seemed more like a thing for stronger progranmers. are you saying you would ordinarily react to thinking “this app should exist” by starting an open-source project?
Unacceptable compared to what? the automated coding tool that never gets anything wrong? But that doesn’t exist. Compared to doing it myself? It would be, if I were better at web dev! but at the moment the comparison point is “no website at all” and it’s clearly better than that.
Have we became so anti-social that the only 2 options are to do it alone or not at all?
I’m afraid that I do understand your point of view—I feel myself very exhausted for the last few years so I was not helping my friends in open source lately, so they opted for coding assistants instead and now when I see the code I feel recoil from the AI slop and I do not wish to return to the project. If they want things done and I don’t “want” to help, what are their options?
Brave new world we live in, infinite productivity increase from zero to something for people who don’t have time to became good at a craft, burnout for a few of us who used to be good and well paid but became overwhelmed by the ever-ready Waluiging incompetent assistant attractor.
i was always antisocial; i literally don’t know how this worked in the Before Times. you… ask your buddy to write code for you? isn’t that a pretty big favor? i ask my friends software questions all the time, but that’s smaller. & i never touched open source contribution because it seemed more like a thing for stronger progranmers. are you saying you would ordinarily react to thinking “this app should exist” by starting an open-source project?