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Some of the worst LLM takes I've seen in a while. I've never thought FLOSS would be taken over by proprietary torment nexuses so fast.

The discussion will probably continue behind closed doors, so the public has no way of knowing who says what and corporations have their way easier.

And someone got exposed for being a Nazi.

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[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago
[-] gbargoud@masto.nyc 10 points 19 hours ago

@vikingtons @Kiriko

All of the "but I was so polite in this thread" reads like some "I'm not touching you" bullshit.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Its pretty fucking crazy. Seems they also didn't really read the room in that thread aside from those tweets.

all in all, a rich tapestry of oof

[-] darkling@mstdn.social 4 points 19 hours ago

@vikingtons @Kiriko That link is returning 403 for me. I guess they locked it away *hard*.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I'm still able to see it here. Wonder if it's some CDN outage?

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

If you are still donating to KDE please consider cancelling and let the KDE devs know.

[-] ShyFae@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 20 hours ago
[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 19 points 19 hours ago

A majority of KDE developers are determined to create an LLM policy that allows AI code submissions without any form of disclosure to "avoid shaming", and appear to be completely dismissing any ethical, environmental, or copyright concerns brought up.

[-] kevin@dice.camp 5 points 19 hours ago
[-] mholiv@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I don’t get the fuss here. The KDE LLM policy is essentially the same as the Linux kernel. Aka human driven, human responsible, LLM assisted coding.

Unless you are running KDE on NetBSD you where already using LLM assisted code.

[-] rhamph@awful.systems 18 points 15 hours ago

I don’t get the fuss here. The KDE LLM policy is essentially the same as the Linux kernel.

Psssst! Slop in the kernel is also bad

[-] mholiv@lemmy.world -4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Have you seen the quality of the code in the kernel? I am no c fan but the bar and standards are incredibly high.

The kernel is certainly LLM assisted but I don’t think any honest dev can look at say the recent LLM assisted code and call it slop. If anything the quality of Linux code has gotten higher over the past decade.

I am not a fan of vibe coded slop and I don’t think it’s fair to call the kernel slop.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago

hogher

Bristley? Invasive? Dangerous? Not kosher?

[-] mholiv@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Typo fixed. I mean better.

[-] flowerysong@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago

Fuck off, no one asked you for your bad opinions.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 10 hours ago

it’s slop

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago

The first rule of holes always applies

[-] Dimand@aussie.zone 5 points 18 hours ago

LLM usage

The golden rule for LLM usage in KDE is Don't be lazy:

Don't try to use a tool to replace your own judgment, interpersonal communication, or learning process.

Don't take unsustainable shortcuts.

Don't avoid growing as a person.

The result will be poor-quality work that eventually becomes someone else's problem.

Nobody in KDE should know if you use an LLM — not because you're concealing it, but because your usage of it produces output indistinguishable from what you could produce yourself. Contributions with obvious and lazy LLM usage may be ignored or closed.

Are we reading that same thing? Hardly seems like a pro LLM stance or the worst take that could be made.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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