A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
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debate the merits of slop code in a password manager elsewhere
I’m just commenting, I didn’t make the post?! I mean I like 80% of what they say. I think it’s great to have transparency and a review process in my password manager… Just not AI…
Isn’t “to double down” a blackjack reference? I mean sure, they’re upholding their position here. And it might be debatable whether that’s a risky game. Just saying they didn’t change anything with this statement.
Lol. How is that doubling down? That’s what we concluded two days ago in the discussion over at !fuck_ai@lemmy.world from what they did in the previous months. And now they confirm it is in fact like that… And… I mean it’s not a secret. They’re actually pretty transparent with it and the statement matches almost exactly what they’ve been writing in their Github repo for some time now. I mean we might not like what they do. But I really don’t see how they double down on anything here.
Thanks. Bizarre conversation. But from all sides really, also wild to just claim they don’t know what a zero day is and that’s just made up. I think it’s super unhealthy no one looks at the actual code and what they’re doing but it’s completely hypothetical and about what people say, not do. Like what code quality they actually have. That’d be a good indicator for their users to judge. And also to judge how clever these people are. But seems that’s exempt from the discussion. Idk. Thanks for pointing me at this, I wasn’t aware. I’ll scroll through it some more.
And I’d really like to know what those developers see in AI that I don’t see and why they use it in the first place. From what I can tell by scrolling through their PRs, Copilot hasn’t been of much help to them. And there’s a reason why other people use or avoid it. I still think it’s not as bad as portrayed. The review process will deal with AI slop the same way it does with malicious PRs from the NSA or Russian hackers… It needs to handle all of it 100% so slop doesn’t really stand out here. But it’s really weird to do experiments in a password manager and not some side-project.
Edit: And now that I see that, I kinda hate how mobs show up in their Github repo to spam them. I don’t think this is the solution either.