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  • The issue being that one is unlikely to gain the experience necessary to fully leverage the power of the tool, if it’s the primary way to code, because it does too much, to readily…

    How many CNC guys have the intuition of an of old school master machinist? Some do, most don’t. Plus, one of those masters can viably run many machines, with an unskilled observer monitoring to catch catastrophic fails. Fewer good jobs because of that. When automaton takes the learning out of the curve, very few people will put in the extra effort to grow beyond what’s needed for minimum viability, with all the knock on consequences that brings.

    LLM coding may not kill programming as we know it right now, but I think it’s just a matter of time, just like with US machining/manufacture. Once the learning track to mastery becomes unrewarded, very few will walk it.












  • I’m inferring from these two quotes:

    1-Suhy said that he’s unsure why the Free Software Foundation didn’t choose to intervene. “They actually did not want me to appeal,” Suhy explained.

    2-“I was willing to work with them. I want to make sure that we protect the license and make sure that there’s no dangerous precedent. And the only thing that they could come up with was not to appeal, which I couldn’t do.”

    From the beginning of the article: -“If the appellate court upholds that decision, which endorsed database maker Neo4j’s right to amend the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, governing the use of its software with new binding terms, current assumptions about the enforceability of copyleft licenses will no longer apply.”

    What that says to me is that FSF fears the 9th will use this case to expand corporate power, as they often have in the past, and the precedent thus set will have a much wider reach than a low court decision. This Suhy guy may burn the forest while trying to save his tree.

    But, IANAL, YMMV.