I can't help but feeling like if we're just going to be talking about copyright, we've jumped the shark.
I can't help but feeling like if we're just going to be talking about copyright, we've jumped the shark.
Posted Mar 26, 2026 21:45 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: I can't help but feeling like if we're just going to be talking about copyright, we've jumped the shark. by bertschingert
Parent article: Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD
> If a tool makes it extremely easy to generate lots of code, then people will tend to solve problems by generating lots of code. I already see this with my coworkers writing multi-thousand-line programs to do something that could be done with a short bash script combining existing tools. As a sysadmin, every new program I have to read, understand, and maintain is another burden.
Exactly. I start to receive LLM-generated patches that are the equivalent of the coreutils maintainers receiving a patch labelled "cp: add --url option to copy remote files, like cp --url https://lwn.net/ lwn.html", the end result being that every software will blow up to include a unmaintainable and barely working reimplementation of every other, with both an editor AND a MTA.