ZDnet headline: "I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free"
I, too, am using an alternative that is local, open, and free. I write my own damn code, instead of asking for slop from a so-called "AI" plagiarism machine trained on stolen code.
#AIslop
@brouhaha I wish more people, like yourself, will highlight the unethical aspects of ai not just technical and how far reality is from the hype.
Imho Statistical pattern matching can produce code or prose, for sure, it鈥檚 just not fit for purpose when there鈥檚 a specification, quality control and any type of audit to verify what鈥檚 produced. It鈥檚 a terrifying mess and I鈥檓 merely using it to configure #emacs 馃槉 the time wasted and amount of slop produced to make even the smallest change is pathetic.
I recall seeing it processing all my checked-out 3rd-party libraries when I asked it to change a value of some configuration option it could have simply read the docs describing it in an emacs it had full access to with an MCP tool. You often have to write very specific and elaborate prompts; you might as well just learn elisp and write the code yourself.
Similar experience with #Nix here https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116003504003556422
Thanks!
What a terrible dev you are.
Next you鈥檒l tell me that understanding your own code is important.
@CptSuperlative @brouhaha To be fair, everyone who has been a dev for some time will have a piece of code with the following comment above it:
// This shouldn't work, but it does. Do not touch.
@OverSoft @CptSuperlative @brouhaha
Then there are those times when one writes
;;; This ought to work, but doesn鈥檛. WTAF????
