Comment by tulio_ribeiro
2 days ago
The whole anti-LLM crusade feels like developers trying to gatekeep their own relevance. They know the tool can automate parts if not all of what gave them status, so instead of adapting, they want to declare its use illegitimate and keep themselves as mandatory middlemen. Which is already ironic enough. If Proposal A passes and is somehow enforceable, every distro that embraces AI while Debian moralizes about it will lap them within a few years. You do not stop technological displacement by banning the tools everyone else is using. You just volunteer to be displaced first.
Elementary, Redox and Gentoo already banned it. Nix and Fedora allow it with disclosure. Now Debian and Arch are debating whether to adapt or seal their fate alongside Gentoo. Nix and Fedora got it right. Debian and Arch are deciding whether they want to remain relevant or fade into irrelevance.
The idea that Debian will become irrelevant if it doesn’t accept llm output is so obviously wrong. What would that even mean? Debian has never been a bleeding edge distribution, it’s pretty much the whole appeal, that and the strict rules for packaged software. Even if true, less people using Debian is pretty much irrelevant, it’s not a company trying to grow at all cost.
The whole „embrace genAI or be left behind“ is toxic nonsense repeated without actually engaging with reasons people have to reject the technology. Even in the case where the full-AI future becomes true, it takes pretty much no time to catch up and get up to speed with LLM tooling.
> The whole anti-LLM crusade feels like developers trying to gatekeep their own relevance. They know the tool can automate parts if not all of what gave them status, so instead of adapting, they want to declare its use illegitimate and keep themselves as mandatory middlemen.
That's an absurd and entirely uncharitable interpretation. What it actually is, is developers recognize that LLMs suck at programming and don't want people using a tool which has proven to be so crappy.