> This person doesn't owe you any work. He's providing a product for free

A product being free doesn’t make it exempt from criticism. It’s not about “owing” anybody work.

> and this is a reasonable enough description of the product.

It’s not a great idea to signal a lack of effort, nor is it wrong for users to pick up on that signal. This is the post-llm equivalent to spelling or grammatical errors.

> I'm pretty sure at this point hand-crafted code is more likely to contain security bugs.

LLMs produce code which is fairly ‘locally optimal’, so in good hands they can absolutely be used to build correct software. They also allow those with little to no experience* to cobble something together very quickly and easily while creating a ton of security holes. I think you might be underestimating how common the latter is.

* not to suggest this applies to the OP necessarily. Rather some extra wariness is necessary nowadays since the floor has been lowered so much.

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bko 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> A product being free doesn’t make it exempt from criticism. It’s not about “owing” anybody work.

You can criticize it but your criticism is hallow

> It’s not a great idea to signal a lack of effort, nor is it wrong for users to pick up on that signal. This is the post-llm equivalent to spelling or grammatical errors.

Why should you put in effort to something that should be effortless? Why should I waste my time writing some inferior copy by hand?

> LLMs produce code which is fairly ‘locally optimal’, so in good hands they can absolutely be used to build correct software.

Humans produce code which is fairly ‘locally optimal’

Also, interesting you use ‘ as a quote rather than '. I notice these quotes are used with LLM generated text, as I can't find this on my keyboard.

	▲	sortoflog 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Why should you put in effort to something that should be effortless? Why should it be effortless? > Why should I waste my time writing some inferior copy by hand? Have some faith in yourself :) If the LLM writing was superior then surely nobody would’ve noticed? And to the question: because lack of care in one area implies that that the same approach might extend to other areas. Nobody’s forcing you, but it definitely sends a particular message. > Humans produce code which is fairly ‘locally optimal’ I’m taking this to mean you find the phrasing vague. LLMs are good at avoiding the sort of fine-grained security bugs that you see in some human written code. > Also, interesting you use ‘ as a quote rather than '. I notice these quotes are used with LLM generated text, as I can't find this on my keyboard. Funny, but FYI a fair few mobile keyboards use non-ascii punctuation