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Paul Cantrell

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Compelling.

This side branch deserves its own writeup:

“Some are reaching for LLM-generated code before they even look for an OSS project, both disconnecting those projects from opportunities to grow a sustainable community and nullifying the strategic advantage of having made an OSS solution for a problem. Note that the models are originally trained on that OSS.”

28 August at 22:30 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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Baldur Bjarnason

@inthehands It’s still purely anecdotal on my part, based on conversations and observations. It’s still to early to be sure, but I think that for some people, LLMs are fulfilling demand that OSS used to. The question is just how big that group is.

29 August at 0:30 | Open on toot.cafe
Paul Cantrell

@baldur
That part is anecdotal, and it’s an open question how long lived it is. There’s also a family of partly theoretical questions: What are models trained on once people start using models to write code? Do they propagate expertise from experts to newcomers? Do they create a kind of model in breeding and degenerate? Do they •prevent• the creation of new tools?

I have serious doubts about the sustainability of even the current very mixed success of LLMs for code.

@baldur
That part is anecdotal, and it’s an open question how long lived it is. There’s also a family of partly theoretical questions: What are models trained on once people start using models to write code? Do they propagate expertise from experts to newcomers? Do they create a kind of model in breeding and degenerate? Do they •prevent• the creation of new tools?

29 August at 0:34 | Open on hachyderm.io
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