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I find it ironic given that Emacs was designed with the idea that it would empower people by allow them to learn programming “without noticing”. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736...

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Ironic because the process producing this code is itself pretty much harming autonomy: the person behind it gets a lot done, implementing their high-level view, but they sidestep the whole programming experience as we know it—learning and failing, through sweat and tears, but also joy.

Ludovic Courtès · 23w

I can relate to the pipe dream kind of free software project—the kind that would require too many person-years but could make such a difference. But I cannot relate to this process of telling a machine what to produce, crafting checks so it will keep trying until it succeeds. That feels too remo...

Steve Purcell · 23w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9amud7rggjx0u77wqqa84x537x7g5nws9pqdgu5qadgypfreyv2s77dmr0 I also wonder whether this can even be GPL'd, and/or use GPL code like the existing elisp — afaik, LLM-generated code cannot (yet?) legally be copyrighted, and I don't know whether it...