Comment by Zetaphor
8 hours ago
If the tool meets your needs, does that matter? Were you planning to make a meaningful contribution to the source? My assumption is that the vast majority of the people making these comments would have never even bothered to read the code, nevermind contribute to it.
To put it another way, if you're enjoying eating sausages then what difference does it make how they're assembled?
If I'm eating a sausage, I like to be certain that no asbestos was used in its production.
This is a ridiculous analogy. Test the app. Read its source code. Developers could always write toxic instruction in your tools. AI may write inefficient or messy code, but it’s far from nefarious. “Asbestos” code is written intentionally by humans, not unintentionally AI.
That's a good way to guarantee nobody will use it. Who is going to test the app in a sandbox with godknowswhat kind of tooling needed to find malicious behavior and read the code? For a tool that's convenient once per decade?
1 reply →