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  I don’t know man. I’ve got a project I built by hand for years now. It’s big and complex. Around 200k lines of code. I don’t think AI could do that. Ok, it could probably build something similar. Something that has the same features. But they wouldn’t work well. My project is quite efficient at this point, and I’ve never experienced any AI apps even close to that. The bigger they get, the slower and buggier they tend to be.

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  [AIP] A thumbnail generator for your backend. I wrote a thumbnail generator server. You give it a file, and it gives you back a thumbnail. Supports images, videos, music, 3D models, PDFs, ebooks, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, fonts, HTML, and more. This is really only going to be useful to people writing their own apps. You wouldn’t use this as an end user. If it’s missing any file types that could conceivably have a thumbnail generated for them, let me know. Maybe I can add...

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  If there’s only one file that’s AI generated, what should I tag it? Partially AI?

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  I don’t think I’ll ever stop working on my own projects. Even if I leave the software industry otherwise.

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  You’d have to be a MS Office engineer to answer that.

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  I played around with it a lot yesterday, giving it documentation and asking it to write some code based on the API documentation. Just like every single other LLM I’ve ever tried, it just bungled the entire thing. It made up a bunch of functions and syntax that just doesn’t exist. After I told it the code was wrong and gave it the right way to do it, it told me that _I_ got it wrong and converted it back to the incorrect syntax. LLMs are interesting toys, but shouldn’t be used for real work.

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  I honestly think there are very few things that make sense as a subscription service. Basically all software that runs on your computer (Adobe, Office, etc) make 0 sense being a subscription. Honestly, most web software could just be made to run on your computer. Things like email, cloud storage, phone service, that have ongoing non-development related costs make sense. Media is the worst offender. Just let me pay for a download and watch/listen to something.

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  The original Fahrenheit system was actually pretty clever. It set 0° at the temperature of brine and 96° at internal body temperature. That made marking a thermometer really easy. Like, ridiculously easy. 96 is divisible by two many times before reaching a decimal. Because the freezing temperature of water was really close to 32°, the later Fahrenheit system set that as the lower temperature and 212° as the boiling point instead of using body temperature. That made marking a thermometer more di...

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  He deserved it. His legacy is shit and garbage because his life was shit and garbage.

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  They also love fondly remembering their friend Little Stevie who tragically died aged 12 in 1957 in a helmet-less bicycle accident.

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  Well, syphilis is familiar with you.

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  Ok, well here are quotes from the US Copyright Office that establish that what I said is true: https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/#More-Information

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  I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying. Any portions of the kernel that are public domain can be used by anyone for any purpose without following the terms of the GPL. AI generated code is public domain. To make sure all parts of the kernel are protected by the GPL, public domain code should not be accepted unless absolutely necessary.

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  > If a work’s traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office’s understanding of the generative AI technologies currently available, users do not...

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  Unless the code the AI generated is a copy of copyrighted code, of course. Then it would be copyright infringement. I can cause the AI to spit out code that _I_ own the copyright to, because it was trained on my code too. If someone used that code without including attribution to me (the requirement of the license I release my code under), that would be copyright infringement. Do you understand what I mean?

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  This is a bad move. The GPL license cannot be enforced on AI generated code.