AI is good at finding bugs, they say.
Everyone uses AI, they say.
No one cares about the ethical issues of AI, they say.

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How about writing less code and thus introducing less bugs in the first place?
You're working on a Linux-first app, no one uses Linux, everyone runs on Windows. Why not switch to Windows too?
This is truly evil that speaks, "who cares about AI needing large amounts of energy to operate, and operating on stolen data?"
I thought FOSS was about building a more ethical computing ecosystem.

I want to reiterate, there is *NO* way I EVER use LLMs to write code. For me, programming is more than just a task, it's my dream hobby, and I can't afford having it taken by unethical dumb AI bots

Even if everyone around me would use AI, I still will not. Many people around me run Windows or MacOS, yet I'm a Linux user, have been one for years, and will remain a Linux user. The "everyone uses it so I should use it" argument is just worthless. Why use Linux then? Free Software? ActivityPub? IRC/Matrix/XMPP? Wayland? the list goes on

And no, I am not limiting me mentally by not using AI. In fact, I think quite the opposite. Using LLMs to generate code, or really just having someone else write code, I wouldn't really know much how it all works exactly. Sure, I can study the code and better understand, but if I write it all myself, I then have a *MUCH* better landscape of how it works, I can visualize the overall structure in my head, it all makes sense and the feeling that I know exactly what it does because I wrote it is so good I can't let AI takeover.

Assisted-by: My own human brain cells