I can't post things like "what a bunch of clowns" due to hacker news guidelines so let me go by another more productive route.
These people, the ones who install dependencies (that install dependencies)+, these people who write apps with AI, who in the previous season looped between executing their code and searching the error on stackoverflow.
Whether they work for a company or have their own startup, the moment that they start charging money, they need to be held liable when shit happens.
When they make their business model or employability advantage to take free code in the internet, add pumpkin spice and charge cash for it, they cross the line from pissing passionate hackers by defiling our craft, to dumping in the pool and ruining it for users and us.
It is not sufficient to write somewhere in a contract that something is as is and we hold harmless and this and that. Buddy if you download an ai tool to write an ai tool to write an ai tool and you decided to slap a password in there, you are playing with big guns, if it gets leaked, you are putting other services at risk, but let's call that a misdemeanor. Because we need to reserve something stronger for when your program fails silently, and someone paid you for it, and they relied on your program, and acted on it.
That's worse than a vulnerability, there is no shared responsibility, at least with a vuln, you can argue that it wasn't all your fault, someone else actively caused harm. Now are we to believe the greater risk of installing 19k dependencies and programming ai with ai is vulns? No! We have a certainty, not a risk, that they will fuck it up.
Eventually we should license the field, but for now, we gotta hold devs liable.
Give those of us who do 10 times less, but do it right, some kind of marketing advantages, it shouldn't be legal that they are competing with us. A vscode fork got how much in VC funding?
My brothers lets take arms and defend. And defend quality software I say. Fear not writing code, fear not writing raw html, fear not, for they don't feel fear so why should you?
> Give those of us who do 10 times less, but do it right, some kind of marketing advantages, it shouldn't be legal that they are competing with us.
"Quality over quantity" should be the way, but I think it has failed in every single sector. Food. Healthcare. Education. Manufacturing. Construction. ...
These people, the ones who install dependencies (that install dependencies)+, these people who write apps with AI, who in the previous season looped between executing their code and searching the error on stackoverflow.
Whether they work for a company or have their own startup, the moment that they start charging money, they need to be held liable when shit happens.
When they make their business model or employability advantage to take free code in the internet, add pumpkin spice and charge cash for it, they cross the line from pissing passionate hackers by defiling our craft, to dumping in the pool and ruining it for users and us.
It is not sufficient to write somewhere in a contract that something is as is and we hold harmless and this and that. Buddy if you download an ai tool to write an ai tool to write an ai tool and you decided to slap a password in there, you are playing with big guns, if it gets leaked, you are putting other services at risk, but let's call that a misdemeanor. Because we need to reserve something stronger for when your program fails silently, and someone paid you for it, and they relied on your program, and acted on it.
That's worse than a vulnerability, there is no shared responsibility, at least with a vuln, you can argue that it wasn't all your fault, someone else actively caused harm. Now are we to believe the greater risk of installing 19k dependencies and programming ai with ai is vulns? No! We have a certainty, not a risk, that they will fuck it up.
Eventually we should license the field, but for now, we gotta hold devs liable.
Give those of us who do 10 times less, but do it right, some kind of marketing advantages, it shouldn't be legal that they are competing with us. A vscode fork got how much in VC funding?
My brothers lets take arms and defend. And defend quality software I say. Fear not writing code, fear not writing raw html, fear not, for they don't feel fear so why should you?