2026-10-22 07:03 UTC
the critiques I've seen of the php patch have little to do with "moral purity" and "feeling icky" and are more about the actual approach to mitigating the problem
*including* considering the goals and point of view of people whose job that is, so it's not about making unconsidered demands for human labour either
"pick your battles, e.g. complain that AI is hurting artists" it's also hurting programmers and distorting how programming gets done so I'd consider this relevant
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@jcoglan@mastodon.social 2026-10-22 07:03
idk it sucks to see analysis like "yeah of course backporting 12kloc patches is hard which is why it's useful to think of other solutions that don't involve 12kloc patches" written off as moral purity testing "I am concerned this huge patch is a symptom of a lack of design coherence and will just hide further bugs" is not morality policing "a security patch that is impractical to review is a category error" is not "feeling icky"