By using any FOSS or software produced by software developers and programmers, you are supporting the idea that computation can and should be automated, instead of having humans doing it. This is the origin of computing, and what we've been doing so far, and it continues to "eat the world" via automation, just like the past decades of it.
Software engineers are the socially dumbest creatures on the planet and deserve every bit of scorn that was heaped on them at high school. The industry used them for multi level marketing since about 2010 and now has instructed them to direct the MLM against themselves.
And they comply!
The AI cartel is the new Microsoft.
It is amazing how software developers have been brainwashed. Ted Ts'o, Google employee and pro-AI shill at Debian and LWN, recently argued that supporting AI is similar to supporting the Internet in 2000.
That is another fallacy. The Internet is a common carrier and was supposed to lead to freedom in 2000. It has nothing to do with outsourcing your thinking to a bunch of wannabe trillionaires.
"Programming" as a concept started with humans being "tired" of manually calculating things, then it became faster than humans, and now our sand can talk human language.
And speaking about false equivalency, there are plenty of models you can run locally yourself. I agree that big tech sucks, and many places in the world need less surveillance and less corporate control, but I don't think the entire LLM-space (besides very obviously the biggest companies) are responsible for that kind of usage.
??? FOSS was around before that, famously so.
The rise of Microsoft made FOSS more important, but FOSS wasn't a reaction to surveillance and control, when it started even multi-user networks were practically unprotected, and it was quite easy indeed to see what other users were up to.
The phone phreaks were the ones who were worried about corporate control of comms, the FOSS people just couldn't figure out why people were paying for software with the hood welded shut when there was better software available to those willing to help contribute to it.
I can't see any other comment on this post mentioning AI, did you just make this up?
- "unemployed anyway" does not appear in the post you reply to.
- They gain market share and goodwill from fools. Not all gains have to be immediate monetary gains.
You could as well say that using ChatGPT is beneficial since it causes losses to OpenAI right now.
Astral people are already in the comments making pro AI coding statements. By using uv, you are literally supporting the people who want to make you unemployed for stock options.