yep, that’s basically my thought.

“if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” is what my momma taught me.

if it’s malicious that’s one thing, if it’s free and open source who gives a rats ass how it was made.

oh no your free thing you didn’t pay for gets abandoned? why don’t you take up the reins?

just feels like asking a lot of people and giving them nothing in return

Fair points, I concede.

As someone who has built a lot of software it’s hard to see people treat LLMs as useless when they are shooting themselves in the foot by doing so.

anecdotally, I’ve built a lot of projects and abandoned them because I ran out of time. With an LLM to reduce the input effort I actually think I would’ve maintained them longer.

do you have a source which backs up what you’re claiming?

it shouldn’t matter.

these tools are here to stay.

Oh yeah, 100% agree the future is local. I think we’ll have dedicated chips that have specific models burned on to them to run ultra fast and efficiently.

The mainframe style of computing always goes out of vogue as soon as it can because it sucks

sure - but the unpaid volunteer building your free and open source software wants to go faster so they can spend less of their valuable time on it.

In-general, if you feel this way, lead by example. Fork or contribute but don’t just complain

So do I. You can structure and use the tools responsibly.

Two things I really like using LLMs for right now:

1). Search complex codebases for summaries of “how does this work”. Especially if you are working outside of a project you normally work in, but your code still utilizes it and you want to understand some behavior (or at least know where to look).

2.) PR reviews. I’ve been building a custom skill for awhile now that does a great second pass on PRs. I do my initial review, then sic the LLM on it. It often turns up small things I overlooked that are worth addressing.

Currently, I use LLMs in more of a read-only manner, but I have had success in giving them well-structured easier tickets, if your project has good guidelines and you use the planning mode. You need to have an understanding of where you are working to even utilize these.

I know it’s an unpopular take, because the hive mind wants LLMs to fail SO bad here, but I think there is a usecase for these long-term for B2B software dev.

That said, I generally disagree with the shoving LLMs into things. There are a lot of wasteful examples where companies replace a perfectly good deterministic thing with a token generator and then it gets worse.

yes - God forbid people try to use tools to enable them to get things done faster. If folks worked in software they’d see that LLMs will not be going away there. Folks need to understand that FOSS is not an exception here. They’re welcome to fork and maintain things thanklessly themselves if they dislike it.

exact same story as I. have also been eyeballing NixOS lol. big time investment for me though

I love Gnome. People love to hate it, but it’s workflow is SO good.

I think people just get annoyed that they can’t force it to be whatever they want it to be. Which is fine, that’s why other options exist!

But if you really go to the content-focused, workspace + keyboard shortcut flow Gnome is incredibly efficient, consistent, and stable.

Unpopular opinion #2: I love libadwaita and GTK4. Basically, I enjoy when devs are opinionated about things and build what they want to see in the world.

The adaptive part of libadwaita is really exciting for different form factors!

no need to be a dick, either

I think it’s worth acknowledging that we’re in a bubble here. The world outside does not reflect our opinions here in large part.

Hey, I think you aren’t really understanding my stance here. Please see comment https://lemdro.id/comment/22830764

Hey, you seem to think I actually like this situation - but I don’t.

I actually fully agree, but the reality is that the original post is not representing anything meaningful for moving people off of Matlab -> Octave. The tweet is over-dramatic and also written by AI.

I think it’s worth being critical instead of falling into a circle jerk here. Octave has a ways to go before it can kill Matlab. I’d love to see it happen!

yeah, I don’t think people really understand what I was saying.

I love Octave, I hate Matlab. but the price isn’t high enough to cause companies to shift in any meaningful way (especially in aerospace).

The twitter post feels like an AI written fever dream of Matlab dying (it isn’t x, it’s y).

Grad students have license provided by their university, research lab, or company. Doesn’t mean I like it…

agreed!

I think it’s a little insulting. When I was a student I got Matlab free through my university.

At a job, your employer pays for Matlab if they expect you to use it.

Frankly, I hate Matlab. But it is silly to act like the cost of an individual license is much of a factor, that cost is so little compared to your salary most companies do not care

about 2 years ago, why?

$500/yr is not that much.

people aren’t usually paying for these licenses, their employers are.

…you don’t need your networking gear to support this in any way