new | show | ask | jobs Github

ianbutler 2 hours ago

So basically what a normal person is going to do initially?

▲

cyanydeez 2 hours ago | parent [-]

the difference people typically credit where things come from and not 'look at what the llm did' See how that works?

▲

ianbutler an hour ago | parent [-]

> See how that works?

Don't get cute.

Now to answer substantially, no frankly unless I'm legally required to I don't credit things. I usually specifically go for licenses that let me do whatever I want. I don't think I've ever credited a library I didn't have to I just use them and make things with them. That's the point of them and no one would raise your point in a pre LLM world imo.

Edit: Like as the point of absurdity no one is thanking the creators of postgres for every project that happens to use postgres. You still made a thing even if you didn't write your database from scratch.

▲

dugidugout an hour ago | parent [-]

Were you not "[being] cute" yourself? I don't like it, but they did have to goad you into giving some substance.

▲

ianbutler an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't intend it that way, but I guess I can see it now. The point they made had not crossed my mind (as evidenced by my response of how I usually make projects, it wouldn't have) So to me the OP was complaining about something I saw as what would be a normal process for like a whole bunch of developers working on normal projects.

Frankly I think this is faux outrage now that a lot of people are getting wise to the fact a substantial amount of modern programming is basically simple pipefitting.

It was always true that the amount of people providing the foundations the rest of us do work on was super tiny and that was just kind of accepted as fact at least from my > 11 years in industry and overall 20+ years of programming now. It's only now that the pipefitting may be devalued are people getting in a tizzy.

▲

oeidjwkdjwkfj an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep, complete “kettle, pot” moment.

	▲	ianbutler an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'll own it.