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Re: Vienna-RSS project – Draft for “AI” policy
Exactly!
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Re: Vienna-RSS project – Draft for “AI” policy
Algaris wrote #342574:
This is how “AI”* should be used (if you choose to use it. Whether you should is another discussion). It’s not a crutch to replace actual coding or understanding of the code you’re writing nor a shortcut to reduce quality checks. Instead, it’s a tool to assist you while you work. It can be part of your workflow but not the workflow.
Yes. That is why I started this discussion and want to see a sort of “declaration” / “manifesto” / “guideline” text included with Textpattern.
I put “AI” in quotes because what people call AI are actually very sophisticated algorithms that respond to your input. There’s no actual intelligence involved.
You give “AI” still a bit too much credit: It is nothing more than sophisticated pattern matching, enabled by powerful chips.
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Re: Vienna-RSS project – Draft for “AI” policy
phiw13 wrote #342577:
You give “AI” still a bit too much credit: It is nothing more than sophisticated pattern matching, enabled by powerful chips.
Yes, that’s precisely what I meant and I agree. You input something and the “AI” generates an output without any thought, simply matching patterns based on your input.
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Bandcamp “AI” policy: blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/
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#20 Today 15:40:01
Re: Vienna-RSS project – Draft for “AI” policy
In related news @tante posted his view on the prospects for OSS in relation to vibed code, which isn’t even proofread before being released to the unwashed masses. He thinks…
Because up to now trusting open source was – heuristically – not a bad idea. […] But now we have “AI” and everyone can generate some code. That might work. Or might mine some crypto or give your laptop an STI. Decades of collective work proving that “open source” is not less but at least as secure as commercial offerings now slowly going down the drain.
This whole approach feels very different to how I (we?) used to build software.
Is this a new era, and are we the ones clinging to steam machines while combustion engines emerge?
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#21 Today 16:55:27
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I agree with him. Unverified code is worse than code snippets scraped off an LLM and used verbatim in a PR. Especially in a high profile OS project that claims to be so much to so many.
Stunts like that tar open source with a bad brush, undermining all the hard work we put into projects like Textpattern.
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#22 Today 19:05:59
Re: Vienna-RSS project – Draft for “AI” policy
I’ve had two recent-ish meetings with a fellow agency tech, and we talked at length about clients, AI, and other things. One of the more memorable things we discussed was the build vs fix methods with software, and the importance of clients wanting (needing?) someone to fix things when they go south. I am, by trade, more fix than break and the value of understanding how something plugs together becomes a lot more important when there’s fixin’ to be done.
If software is vibe-coded, it’s much more difficult to troubleshoot. Unless vibeshooting becomes a protocol where we go full circle and The Model that built The Thing can also fix The Thing. I’ve been looking at the projected cash burn for OpenAI in the coming years…holy moly:
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