Free software people: A major goal of free software is for individuals to be able to cause software to behave in the way they want it to
LLMs: (enable that)
Free software people: Oh no not like that
@mjg59 You will get backlash, but you are right.
Free software folks will have to decide whether what they really wanted was *everyone* to have the freedom to use and modify software, or only that subset of everyone who had the privilege of learning software development.
There has always been this elitist dividing line in the community between people who contribute code, and people who contribute all the other things FOSS needs to thrive. Now those people can contribute code too.
@kyle @mjg59 Proprietary tooling is the reason "Stallman was right" about Bitkeeper, but "everyone was better off for having not listened to him" is the pragmatic side.
Yes, I want people to benefit from the freedom to modify code, but they will never truly be free if they are using a proprietary LLM to make their modifications.
