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2026-09-27 13:06 UTC

I’m no luddite, have used it (not quite voluntary) at work. Gotta say has its use use cases but I don’t think any of them are in FOSS right now. It seems hell bent on producing unmaintainable slop. It would be fine for proofs of concepts and/or commercial code, where the time you get for tasks hardly ever is sufficient and most customers want a working solution and don’t care what’s under the hood. If there weren’t the 3 giant red flags of environmental impact, cognitive offloading and dependence on big tech. So why the fuck would you even consider using it in a FREE and OPEN source project, if it’s none of those things?

Replies (5)

  • @HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 2026-09-27 14:20

    Well said! And I’m stealing that red flag list.

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  • I have this same sentiment, I took a long introspective journey to evaluate my bias. Even then LLMs have extremely limited use cases. But they can be useful, they just have a ton of baggage attached to them and condition. Really feels like handling the ring from LOTR sometimes. Corrupting it’s user even if they seek to use it for good

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  • @TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 2026-09-27 16:35

    The main reason open source projects are pushing to formally adopt a policy around (allowing) llm use is that they’re already using it. If there was a unified front between the contributors and the community against llm use, how much code would have to be reverted and rewritten? Most likely a bunch. How long would that take? Most likely a while. Now perhaps they handle it quickly or truly didn’t have any llm work in their code base, how will they handle the flood of legitimate bug reports from llm testing? If you’ve ever worked in a trade where your role is split up in an assembly line you know that the person behind you getting access to a new tool that makes them faster necessitates you get a new tool that lets you keep up.

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  • @trougnouf@lemmy.world 2026-09-27 17:51

    You think (unpaid) FOSS developers have MORE time? O_o

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  • @sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2026-09-28 06:25

    The main value of LLMs in coding IMO is research not implementation

    Open ##4879461