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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by pmarreck on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:45AM (#47321502)
You not realizing how ridiculous this is, is exactly why half of all devs are about to get left behind.

Like, this should be enshrined as the quintessential “they simply, obstinately, perilously, refused to get it” moment.

Shortly, no one is going to care about anyone’s bespoke manual keyboard entry of code if it takes 10 times as long to produce the same functionality with imperceptibly less error.

Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @10:40AM (#47323945)
> Shortly, no one is going to care about anyone’s bespoke manual keyboard entry of code if it takes 10 times as long to produce the same functionality with imperceptibly less error.

Well that day doesn't appear to be coming any time soon. Even after years of supposed improvements, LLMs make mistakes so frequently that you can't trust anything they put out, which completely negates any time savings from not writing the code.

Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by pmarreck on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:52PM (#47330641)
Sorry, but this is user error.

1) Most people still don't use TDD, which absolutely solves much of this.

2) Most poople end up leaning too heavily on the LLM, which, well, blows up in their face.

3) Most people don't follow best practices or designs, which the LLM absolutely does NOT know about NOR does it default to.

4) Most people ask it to do too much and then get disappointed when it screws up.

Perfect example:

> you can't trust anything they put out

Yeah, that screams "missing TDD that you vetted" to me. I have yet to see it not try to pass a test correctly that I've vetted (at least in the past 2 months) Learn how to be a good dev first.

Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by notpachet on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:21PM (#47325337)
> no one is going to care about anyone’s bespoke manual keyboard entry of code if it takes 10 times as long to produce the same functionality with imperceptibly less error.

No one is going to care about anyone’s painstaking avoidance of chlorofluorocarbons if it takes ten times as long to style your hair with imperceptibly less ozone hole damage.

Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by pmarreck on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:16PM (#47342939)
This is a non-argument. All of the cloud LLM's are going to move to things like micronuclear. And the scientific advances AI might enable may also help avoid downstream problems from the carbon footprint
Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by notpachet on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:41PM (#47344120)
I wasn't gesturing to the energy/environmental impacts of AI.