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Serious suggestion, as we’re going to get many such submissions in the future. Can we have an honor code policy of no LLM agents used in development if you want to present on Hacker News. The way I think of it is if we have a forum for painters and then someone just keeps sharing GenAI paintings that he did not actually paint. It’s ridiculous, I want to look at stuff humans painted, not AI. Yes software does have use, and LLM companies have managed to make it so that anyone can build useful software for themselves if they want. So what’s left, is software as an art to appreciate, and I can’t appreciate AI generated art or software whether it is “good”, “functional”, “idiomatic”, “elegant” whatever. We still watch humans play chess, not computers play against each other though sometimes they can be interesting. I’m not a “Luddite”, I’m unhappy with the way American AI companies have gone about this, if they released open weights it would be better. But AI fundamentally changes the meaning of developing software, the way a compiler doesn’t. There’s no building software once you’re using LLM, just as there’s no playing chess when you have a chess engine to help you. And maybe AI code will not look like slop in the future, doesn’t matter, I still don’t really care if an AI built it. |