I think you’re misinterpreting - the thing needs ink one way or another, and the kit suggested in the image is just a standard ink refill kit. They’re just asking if people want them to provide that, or if they want to get it elsewhere - I selected elsewhere.

I mean, before it was a can, it was an aluminium block with no air in it

GenAI replaces a lot of thinking. It is not on the same scale as those other tools. With an LLM, I can easily submit big chunk of code that does a thing, without understanding anything about how or why it does it. That’s not possible with just an IDE. Writing is a form of thinking that gives a much deeper unserstanding than reading and you dont get that with an LLM. That thought-bypass can rapidly become a maintainability issue, and increases the risk of major bugs going undetected.

Why would you not want to disclose though? Is it because of shame? Because you are unable to defend your choice? If it’s “just a tool”, is that not enough to defend your choice?

To be clear: the alternative policy we’re talking about isn’t “LLMs are bad, don’t use them”, it’s “Let us know when you are using LLMs”

Yes… That was also disappointing :(

because a simple disclaimer doesn’t distinguish between the work done,

So just declare how you used the tool?

and also encourages people to point out to AI as a scapegoat for their mistakes.

Nonsense. Doing so is clearly abdicating the responsibility that you’re saying people need to have, and basically admitting you’re a bad developer.

If you’re happy to use AI tools to develop, why would you not be happy to declare your use of those tools?

I do respect their decision and I maintain projects should be self governing.

Me too, but I also think that governance isn’t as simple as “we get to decide what we do”, it also interacts with how well the decision-makers understand their domain and their broader it sits in, both of which are potentially reduced as a consequence of relying on AI.

Also there is the possibility of AI tools dominating workflows and then getting ripped away (either as the corporates raise costs, or the bubble bursts and they collapse), leaving a project overwhelmed with a unmanageably large array of weaknesses. In that scenario self-governance starts to become irrelevant.

This is disappointing… It would have been good to have at least one major distro that was AI free

This is a very hard decision to reverse out of if it turns out to be a problem in a few years

That last bit is a bad idea

the only assurance that survives an audit is that it does not leave the machine.

Well said!

I was like this 5 years ago. Networking a lot is still effort for me, but it is just another learnable skill, and it has lots of benefits (depending on your aims, I guess)

Edit: hah, just realised this is about connecting computers, not about talking to people…

Nice! Is the short cross-grain bit likely to be under strain?

You never contribute anything to this household. Your mother and I think it’s about time you started looking for somewhere else to live.

Damn, I really could have made a lot of use of this over the last 20+ years… Thanks for sharing!

Sloppy pig

… Compared to what?

If you’re mainlining adjective it’s cyberpunk

ed is the standard editor