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what’s stopping the author from maintaining their own fork i wonder?

by ares623 11mo ago

kreetx 11mo ago
Nothing! Another question though when reading his blog: is he himself full AI? as in, not even a human writing those blog posts. Reads a bit like that.
- IsTom 11mo ago
  Either a regular bot or a flesh bot, doesn't really matter at that point, does it?
  - kreetx 11mo ago
    Maybe you're tongue in cheek, but if not, then it matters by discrediting this person, for accepting code from him etc. Anyone can write a blog post now on pretty much whatever topic without actually understand what is being said, so these are essentially just prompt replies - adding nothing new to the world nor showing that the author is knowledgeable on the topic.
- spongebobism 11mo ago
  Presumably the LLM also wrote the blog post. At least, it generated a file named OCAML_DWARF_BLOG_POST.md: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d034bad564583790a46f19d807abfe519c5671395fd494d8cce506c42947 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03...
- tsimionescu 11mo ago
  Funnily enough, people have been asking themselves this question about this author for at least 17 years! https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_reymont_cancels_his_hardcore_erlang_book/c031cyh/ https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_rey...
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kylereeve 11mo ago
no clout
joelreymont 11mo ago
I don't always use OCaml (meme coming in 1...2...3) and maintaining a fork is a significant undertaking. More importantly, being able to debug native OCaml binaries and actually see source code, values of variables, etc. is something that's useful to everyone. Looking at assembler instead of source code sucks unless you are reverse-engineering.
- SirHumphrey 11mo ago
  Why are you submitting a PR if you do not use the software? You could just as easily donate the money that you spent producing 13k LOC to the project and they would spend it to use Claud on things that need to be fixed or just pay themselves to fix things manually. This way there were hours, kwh, and dollars wasted on something that will be of no use to anyone.
  - joelreymont 11mo ago
    With all due respect, try to read things before opining on them. The PR explains why I did the work.
- fatata123 11mo ago
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what’s stopping the author from maintaining their own fork i wonder?

by ares623 11mo ago

what’s stopping the author from maintaining their own fork i wonder?

kreetx 11mo ago

Nothing! Another question though when reading his blog: is he himself full AI? as in, not even a human writing those blog posts. Reads a bit like that.

IsTom 11mo ago
Either a regular bot or a flesh bot, doesn't really matter at that point, does it?
- kreetx 11mo ago
  Maybe you're tongue in cheek, but if not, then it matters by discrediting this person, for accepting code from him etc. Anyone can write a blog post now on pretty much whatever topic without actually understand what is being said, so these are essentially just prompt replies - adding nothing new to the world nor showing that the author is knowledgeable on the topic.
spongebobism 11mo ago
Presumably the LLM also wrote the blog post. At least, it generated a file named OCAML_DWARF_BLOG_POST.md: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d034bad564583790a46f19d807abfe519c5671395fd494d8cce506c42947 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03...
tsimionescu 11mo ago
Funnily enough, people have been asking themselves this question about this author for at least 17 years! https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_reymont_cancels_his_hardcore_erlang_book/c031cyh/ https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_rey...

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kylereeve 11mo ago

no clout

joelreymont 11mo ago

I don't always use OCaml (meme coming in 1...2...3) and maintaining a fork is a significant undertaking. More importantly, being able to debug native OCaml binaries and actually see source code, values of variables, etc. is something that's useful to everyone. Looking at assembler instead of source code sucks unless you are reverse-engineering.

SirHumphrey 11mo ago
Why are you submitting a PR if you do not use the software? You could just as easily donate the money that you spent producing 13k LOC to the project and they would spend it to use Claud on things that need to be fixed or just pay themselves to fix things manually. This way there were hours, kwh, and dollars wasted on something that will be of no use to anyone.
- joelreymont 11mo ago
  With all due respect, try to read things before opining on them. The PR explains why I did the work.
fatata123 11mo ago
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