> The biggest LLM sellouts in open source

I'm pretty sure someone will soon call Linus a sell-out. The hate / denial / radicalisation is just sad at this point... Do, or don't, but at least don't hate the others. Be and let be. No need to call other people names just because you don't like their sand castle. There's plenty of sand on the beach.

You can't both be nice and believe that LLMs are useful tools?

> Ironically Oracle [...] is now being the good guy.

Reminder: oracle is also an acronym, and you might want to take a gander at what its subject is up to.

There is no future in which oracle is the good guy no matter the axis. Least of all the subject of AI.

Seems unnecessarily harsh. LLMs are a power tool. I'm not on-board with how it's being used in a lot of places, once things shake out I believe it's going to be net positive.

So many questions!

What exactly is an LLM sellout? Someone who sees the world moving toward it?

Wouldn't Rust be a sellout too?

Why is Scala an LLM sellout?

'Oracle is the good guy' is a sort of canary in the coal mine that perhaps you've got your worldview a bit upside down

I'm glad someone else called out Matz on this.

He started being ambivalent about it maybe two years ago, and reached metastasis in the latest Rails World fiasco, with dhh telling him to his face that his life's work (Matz's terms) is irrelevant now.