[isodev]

Once, I had a very frustrating slack chat with a fellow developer. We were discussing edge cases for a new feature and the experience from my perspective was that for each of my messages, I’d get a “in case of … how about …” style reply. The topic was focused around iOS vs. Android app lifecycle. Every now and then my colleague would suggest APIs or events that simply don’t exist.

This was before vibe coding, around the days of GPT 3.5. At the time I just thought it was a challenging topic and my colleague was probably preoccupied with other things so we parked the talk.

A few weeks later, while exploring ways to use GPT for technical tasks I suddenly remembered that slack chat and realised the person had been copy pasting my messages to gpt and back. I really felt bad at that moment, like… how can you do this to someone…? It’s not bad that you try tools to find information or whatever, but not disclosing that you’re effectively replacing your agency with that of a bot is just very suboptimal and probably disrespectful.

[teaearlgraycold]

Anyone doing this should be fired. Both for the lack of trust they bring to the team but also because they’re just making themselves a middle man to an LLM. Why not cut out the middle man?

[zephen]

People who make things don't make any money.

People who claim that they are disrupting with disintermediation, but actually simply replace the old intermediary with their own?

Those people get filthy rich.

People who _should_ be making things but are trying this intermediation technique themselves will most likely find that it's like other forms of lying. Go big or go home.