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> Looking at it from another angle: how many tons of CO₂ added to the atmosphere or liters of fresh water supplies disrupted is a tolerable price for a better code review?

Fewer than if a human had done it without AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941143

I guess that means he should advocate for more use of AI for Linux dev! ;-)

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He should, but you'll never get these free software wingnuts to see logic. They back-rationalize everything from ideologically drawn conclusions.

And they're driven by fear--fear of being replaced. This is one reason why open source projects are limiting use of LLMs. LLMs finally make software free! Or at least, much cheaper.

In reality, these reactionary anti-AI policies mean that users are private forking OSS projects, improving them with AI, and not contributing the changes back, making the original OSS project even more irrelevant over time.

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