hi, i have strong feelings about the use of genai but i come at it from a very different direction (story writing). it’s possible for someone to throw together a 300 page story book in an afternoon - in the style of lovecraft if they want, or brandon sanderson, or dan brown (dan brown always sounds the same and so we might not even notice). now, the assumption that i have about said 300 pager is that it will be dogshit, but art is subjective and someone out there has been beside themselves pining for it.

but this has always been true. there have always been people churning out trash hoping to turn a buck. the fact that they can do it faster now doesn’t change that they’re still in the trash market.

so: i keep writing. i know that my projects will be plagiarized by tech companies. i tell myself that my work is “better” than ai slop.

for you, things are different. writing code is a goal-oriented creative endeavor, but the bar for literature is enjoyment, and the bar for code is functionality. with that in mind, i have some questions:

if someone used genai to generate code snippets and they were able to verify the output, what’s the problem? they used an ersatz gnome to save them some typing. if generated code is indistinguishable from human code, how does this policy work?

for code that’s been flagged as ai generated- and let’s assume it’s obvious, they left a bunch of GPT comments all over the place- is the code bad because it’s genai or is it bad because it doesn’t work?

i’m interested to hear your thoughts

this is cool

you should make a post about this somewhere here on Lemmy

people should know about it

That’s great, thank you!
Added to my project’s repo.

I like this approach, but how can it be enforced? Would you have to read every line and listen to a gut feeling?

Thank you

“AI generated” means that the subject material is in whole, or in meaningful part, the output of a generative AI model or models, such as a Large Language Model. This does not include code that is the result of non-generative tools, such as standard compilers, linters, or basic IDE auto-completions. This does, however, include code that is the result of code block generators and automatic refactoring tools that make use of generative AI models.

As “artificial intelligence” is not that well defined, you could clarify what the policy defines “AI” as by specifying that “AI” involves machine learning.

TBF if the reviewer just quoted Claude at me, I would reply with Claude or ChatGPT.

Couldn’t help but notice the casual gendering of Claude to “he” as well.

“Claude” is a male given name. If you think it’s actually a problem, blame Anthropic for giving their LLM a gendered name. I’ve never gendered AI assistants, but I’m not going to begrudge people who do when it’s in the name (or in the case of old Siri, the voice, which would later be the default rather than only option).

Women named “Claude” exist, but they’re staggeringly outnumbered by men to a point where most people don’t even know of women named “Claude” – let alone would immediately associate it as masculine.

Let’s not lose focus more on the more immediate concern here, that this person is using a human pronoun to describe a computer.

Let’s not over interpret things here. Siri and Alexa are both mainly voice assistants, or at least started out as such. Studies have been conducted that show people trust female voices more than male voices. So the choice of female voices was obvious, and having female names is nothing surprising.

Also, Siri, Alexa and Cortana were seen as “intelligent” at the time, as well (or were supposed to be seen, depending on who you ask).

Or maybe, just maybe, it has a guys name.

Good Lord y’all made up since crazy shit to whine about.

Of all the problems with these things we’re taking issue with the naming?

I see this excuse of burn out every time it comes to LLM use, but i honestly do not buy it. You cant tell me every other dev out there just burnt out at the same time in sync with the release of LLM coding assistants. If you use LLMs like this you simply dont care about the project anymore and should move on with your life. Its better for everyone if it gets abandoned by the original dev and forked by ones that care. Sometimes you just gotta let go.

There aren’t better ways, not in their current forms.

Emacs. C?min ;)

What I’m wondering is, why does Vim need new features in the core repo at all?
It’s finished software at this point.
The dev should just do security upgrades and let extensions developed by other people handle additional functionality.

I originally meant to leave a much shorter comment; apologies.

I can’t code to save my life. However I find your observation interesting. The way I see it, AI, no matter where, is eroding human to human interactions. It becomes the middleman for everything.

It’s really obvious with personal research. A couple years ago if you wanted to start say, growing tomatoes in your backyard, you would have searched people’s comments on a variety of media platforms, would have read a few books or blogs. You would have asked questions to a bunch of people with some experience, left a like or upvote on people posting photos of their tomatoes, you would have used your own judgement to discern what consisted good quality advice and what not.

It would have taken you days. But all that interaction is very rewarding especially for those authoring comments, blogs, books, and photos of their experiences. Because nobody makes something just to be ignored.

Now LLM does all that process for you. In a matter of seconds. And giving no feedback or interaction to anyone whose information was used. It’s depressing, but I’m intrigued to see how it plays out.

Reverse compression: making transmission larger (while still being lossy).

I never liked vim. This got me to try Micro and now the only time I’m going to use Vim is if I’m forced by a remote system I can’t install it or nano on. I may strip it out of my systems entirely. I really don’t need something so complicated to edit the sudoers file.

Re: Neovim

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assisted-work

i ❤️vim. used it for some 15 years.

switched to neovim cause of firenvim which allowed me to use neovim in text areas in firefox

I switched to helix editor since last I saw, it appears to lack AI use. That said, Neovim isn’t awful and is less enthusiastically pro-ai. Helix also still does not have a plugin system so for the time being you’re kind of constrained to its built-in features and customization options

Just use VScode, definitely no slop in there. Microslop would never

Or just switch to Neovim?

Use Doom Emacs, then it’s usual Vim bindings + the space bar for fancy commands. The difficult part would be Emacs Lisp for customization, but then again it’s way better than Vimscript.

Thanks for the replies - going to check that out when I have time.

If you have a few days and feel like staying inside for a bit, check out the system crafters Emacs from scratch videos on yt (perhaps also elsewhere). They are awesome and get you started better than just downloading spacemacs or so, but take some time.

The learning curve is a bit steep, but if you already figured out – and felt comfortable in – Vim, it shouldn’t be that hard.

Some people suggest Doom Emacs or evil, but I enjoy learning ‘vanilla’ first, then going for some framework or customization layer afterwards, if I do it at all.

I don’t think those comments are generated and posted automatically by a bot plugged to their github repo. I think they are generated by the author using an LLM and copy-pasted there - or if the account is plugged to some LLM, they are at least manually reviewed. The answer to the replied-to comment are posted from 10 minutes to some hours later. I don’t think they lost their mind to the point of giving unvetted access to their reputable account to an AI that simply posts for them. That said, they could al least strip the obvious/uneasy parts that give very LLM vibes, specifically those quoted in the op