(For whatever reason, LLM coding things seem to love to reinvent the square wheel…)
It seems like it is hard to cultivate a community that cares about doing the right thing, but is focused and pragmatic about it.
https://discord.com/blog/developing-rapidly-with-generative-...
The project is ~4 years old. Screen sharing is still a work in progress. It's been a while since I tested it myself but you can still see plenty of reports of it being buggy and slow.
Basically it gives of major bike shedding impressions.
If you use for example, GitHub Co-Pilot IDE integration, there's no evidence.
I have pretty low expectations for human code in that repository.
> and most likely serves as a way to tie LLM use to slavery, genocide, or oppression without requiring rational explanation.
Assuming and ascribing nefarious motivations to a complete stranger can be considered bad faith, though. Probably not your intention, but that’s how it came across.
I encourage people here to go read the 3(!) commits reverted. It's all minor housekeeping and trivial bugfixes—nothing deserving of such religious (cultish?) fervor.
[0] As a corollary, those with civility do deserve transparency. It's a tough situation.
Non-contributors dictating how the hen makes bread.
[0] While this fact can be difficult to ascertain, one must remember that mobs are generally much, much louder than normal users, and normal users are generally quiet even when the mob is loud.
I don't want to be too meta, but isn't that a description of most HN threads? We show up to criticize other people's work for self-gratification. In this case, we're here here to criticize the dev caving in, even though most of us don't even know what Stoat is and we don't care.
Except for some corner cases, most developers and content creators mostly get negative engagement, because it's less of an adrenaline rush to say "I like your work" than to say "you're wrong and I'm smarter than you". Many learn to live with it, and when they make a decision like that, it's probably because they actually agree with the mob.
