this benefit isn't really that convincing to me tbh

my anger may have been focused on AI lately but my real worry is the same as before—the gentrification of hacker culture by silicon valley techbros

when i look at software repos, there’s a far more important question i ask before even considering the developers’ stance on LLMs:

is it free software (centers people), or is it a product (centers market value)?

unsurprisingly, the slop machine gamblers are found almost exclusively in the latter category.

so what we’re dealing with here is basically just another symptom of the damage that corporate influence is doing to free software.

Beautiful risings empresses

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

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