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0 pointsbgwalter6mo ago0 comments

You can get pretty far with just K&R and in isolation if you write algorithmic code. Or with just APUE in isolation.

LLMs cannot, they need vast bodies of stolen text to become remotely useful. For all activities, humans need less training material than the laundromats.

Aside from that, there are legal, philosophical and economic arguments that machines are not the same as humans and do not deserve the same rights. 99.99% of the world population outside of SV hype circles would agree with that.

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brookst6mo ago

How many human developers have never learned from other peoples’ code?

And let’s at least make up better stats. No way even 50% of the population understands and thinks about the issues. I’d say it’s probably 11.5184% actually.

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0 pointsbgwalter6mo ago0 comments

You can get pretty far with just K&R and in isolation if you write algorithmic code. Or with just APUE in isolation.

LLMs cannot, they need vast bodies of stolen text to become remotely useful. For all activities, humans need less training material than the laundromats.

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brookst6mo ago

How many human developers have never learned from other peoples’ code?

And let’s at least make up better stats. No way even 50% of the population understands and thinks about the issues. I’d say it’s probably 11.5184% actually.

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