Comment by sbarre
5 days ago
Really? You care about some stranger's work and how they created it?
Pro tip: you shouldn't.
Care about your work if you want, but "caring" about how someone else makes things and how they talk about it is just being a judgemental busybody and again, gatekeeping.
As for my comment, I stand by it.
If I made something genuinely useful, then it should not matter if it took me 5 minutes or 5 days to make it.
You'll never convince me that more time spent making something (all other factors being equal - yes, quality matters) gives it more value or credibility.
Thanks for the tip haha. I am personally divided on it, but it’s more complicated than just quality or output for me.
I will apologize if I came off combative - was in the backseat of a car so may have been a little direct.
I think people care, all for different reasons. You care too - just when it comes to quality as you mentioned (and I’m sure other factors).
In this case many people correctly pointed out that there were clear indications of a lack of direct cognitive effort on behalf of the operator - including code quality, comment / git history, and including copy that he didn’t write. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean the LLM which did most of the work (or not? How can we know without an auditable prompt history) didn’t produce quality work.
When it comes to something that was made in 5 days AI assisted - the idea may be novel, but without a full prompt history it does become difficult to assess quality of cognitive effort on the operator at least.
In any case - it’s hard for me to know what to call the author. And I do think this applies to traditional media as well, so Im definitely not saying it’s all one sided (Bah! AI!)
That's fair, I guess I was really reacting to the narrow gatekeeping-like case the OP was advocating, where time spent/invested - or only doing things a certain way - was correlated to legitimacy and being able to claim you "made" a thing.