Interesting writing. But my concern is that social responsibility will be dumped by the cost factor as he said. Anything that is GPL is under threat by an AI-based reimplementation. The cost of doing that seems artificially low now (investment hype phase, not ROI phase of these businesses), so it’s not really the idea anyone could do it that concerns me. The concerning part is no matter the price, bigger companies can take the hit and now direct their resources to undo the GPL everywhere and simultaneously replace labor in doing it.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Companies will then eat shit when trying to maintain code after firing the ~~developer~~ prompt engineer that ~~wrote~~ inspired it.

I think management rarely understand why they pay people, but with tech is becoming super clear they don't understand that they pay us to maintain apps not code, and a huge party of that is understanding the app, which is why LOC is a bad metric, why riser4 was never merged into main & AI code isn't visible long term.

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I can't remember where I saw it, but I read an article saying tests should be left closed source as using AI to make it bug free without the tests will be significantly harder. Creates a moat of sorts.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Primeagen mentioned it here, noting that sqlite does this