Sam Deane

@mattiem@mastodon.social AI is not a technological revolution, it’s a philosophical one. It overturns our whole conception of knowledge. It is no longer possible to own an idea or a design, or control how it gets used..

@justkwin@toot.community you bloody southerners, always banging on about how hot it is...

@mattiem@mastodon.social yeah. It’s an interesting hedge! “We’re making this satirically, but also it works and we’re charging for it, just in case…” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/malus-clones-software-copyright

@mattiem@mastodon.social @reveal@indieapps.space can you move the goalposts to change the problem? Always link the framework, but make it a thin shell which uses dlopen explicitly to load & link the real functionality at runtime from an external bundle. Have the framework cope with the bundle not being there, and/or not bother to try to load it in release. I don't really know the details of reveal so I expect there's a good reason why this wouldn't work!

@mattiem@mastodon.social they claim that it’s satire…

@dimsumthinking@mastodon.social this was pretty much my reaction when introduced to stuff like the Z specification language in a computer science lecture in about 1990. I'm sure some of the reaction was down to insecurity at the idea of my role being replaced by a mathematical proof, but even by then I think I had enough practical experience to think "hang on a minute, isn't that just another kind of..?” 😄.

@mattiem @chris I'm being optimistic here (rare for me), but with the help of LLMs, maybe there’s a way to maintain collaboration but move it to a higher level? Instead of sharing a literal code base, maybe we find a way to share the algorithm / approach / design. Maybe we find a way to push the ways we changed and mutated the code upstream in a more descriptive way than just "here's a code patch”? Maybe those who want to can mandate that their agents actively participate in this?

@mattkenworthy I also like "cardboard-cutout debugging” Somewhere I worked, we had a cardboard cutout of someone or other - presumably some marketing materials. Describing the problem to this non-person was often illuminating, and led to sentences like “so you see, the main problem is that… oh... I'm an idiot.”. Cats also work :)

@justkwin@toot.community this is indeed very cool