Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > Hey, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> skribis: > >> yes. Free software is more about understanding than other communities. >> We all need to learn what and *why* an LLM can and cannot do, instead of >> anthropomorphizing these improved search engines without clear sources. > > Yeah, it’s also a thing I’ve been thinking: that free software is > fundamentally about knowledge sharing, and that “programs must be > written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to > execute” (Abelson in SICP). > > But the examples Hugo gave are interesting: it’s really assistance for > the non-creative labor that relates to packaging.
Making that distinction is very difficult, and others can misuse it to provide huge slop PRs. > Could our tooling (‘guix refresh’ in this case) be compelling enough > that one doesn’t feel the need to resort to LLMs for this kind of tasks? Yes, I would like us to go in this direction too. If there's a lot of "non-creative labour" that is required for packaging, the solution is better documentation, better tools and a community that helps newcomers. LLMs should not be a solution for this. Regards, -- Divya Ranjan Pattanaik, Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software. PGP Fingerprint: F0B3 1A69 8006 8FB8 096A 2F12 B245 10C6 108C 8D4A
