[mrsilencedogood]

While I think a lot of the AI hype is just hype - everyone saying most of these things have _hitherto untold riches_ levels of financial incentives to say them - I think it's also undeniable that LLMs speed up many aspects of coding.

I also think that AI might be the beginning of the end of copyright. While before, everyone with money clearly had tremendous incentive to keep copyright strong, now all of a sudden trillions of dollars are basically predicated on the idea that LLMs aren't violating copyright. Copyleft has been a major tool in the FOSS toolbox. If that's weakening, I don't ALSO want free software to be locked out of agentic programming too.

[mattmanser]

Only for the AI companies. Not for you or I.

It's the corrupting nature of capitalism really laid bare. A net loss for so many of their constituents that politicians all over the world are falling over themselves to pave the way for foreign companies to exploit their constituents IP.

A true tragedy of the commons unfolding before us.

I get why, and I get why it's the only realistic choice, but it really is showing the weaknesses of modern politics.

[nl]

Strong disagree.

I love AI because I love building things and it lets me build more things I like faster.

If anything it's anti-capitalist: For example I built a software bluetooth proxy for Docker that let me use the underlaying BT device for Home Assistant even though the HA docs said I'd have to buy a new device. There is no way I'd do that without AI.

And I've built many many random project that I'd never have thought about doing without AI.