[peter_retief]

wow this is murky water, I love the abstraction of AI, I feel like the director of an orchestra creating beautiful music in code.

I always resented having to write the same code over and over, now automated by AI

but also support free and open software, as all knowledge should be

[flohofwoe]

> I always resented having to write the same code over and over,

Those problems had been solved in the 1970s and don't need LLMs. One solution is called 'copy-paste', another 'software libraries/components' ;)

[peter_retief]

Neither really solved the problem, reality is too nuanced, AI fills the gap.

[flohofwoe]

Not sure if a non-deterministic copy-paste is really filling a gap ;)

But yeah, there are areas in software development where AI assistence is actually useful, I just see code-generation as one of the less useful areas, since tbh this isn't a problem that needs urgent solving. IMHO LLMs are much more useful for passively analyzing/bugscanning code bases (or data in general).

[peter_retief]

Absolutely, I give my agents access to MCP/API and they can check logs and setup checks for potential problems and whatever else

[lionkor]

> I love the abstraction of AI

Careful with that wording. LLMs are not an abstraction, they do not provide an abstraction, not in the software sense, as they are completely non-deterministic the way they are used today. Saying "write me a function that does xyz" is not an abstraction layer ontop of writing it yourself.

[peter_retief]

It is a really interesting debate, it seems to be a type of abstraction at least, with an interface as a natural language instead of a typed schema.

[archagon]

It's no more an abstraction than working with a bunch of contractors to make an app.

[surgical_fire]

> I love the abstraction of AI, I feel like the director of an orchestra creating beautiful music in code.

You can host your projects elsewhere you know? Codeberg is not the only public git service available.

[m4xp]

Mmm, actually the composer is the one that creates music. A director simply translates music to something human can experience and enjoy, similar to a compiler.

Get your slop machine to write you better analogies.