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Emacs developers advocate for 'handmade' software, rejecting LLMs

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A group of developers, identifying with the "Human Emacs" movement, are advocating for free and open-source software to remain small-batch, handmade, and organic, explicitly rejecting the influence of Large Language Models (LLMs). They view LLMs as an affront to justice and a destructive force that benefits a select few at the expense of many. The irony is noted that these developers often work with programming languages historically used in AI research. AI

IMPACT This commentary highlights a segment of the developer community's strong opposition to LLMs, framing them as ethically problematic and detrimental to open-source principles.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of opinion pieces from developers expressing a viewpoint on software development practices and LLMs.

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Emacs developers advocate for 'handmade' software, rejecting LLMs

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · alecmuffett ·

    Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs https:// alecmuffett.com/article/168848

    Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs https:// alecmuffett.com/article/168848 # HumanEmacs # SoftwarePuritanism # ai # emacs # lisp

    LINKS alecmuffett.com/…/168848
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs https://alecmuffett.com/article/168848 #

    Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs https://alecmuffett.com/article/168848 #HumanEmacs #SoftwarePuritanism #ai #emacs #lisp

    LINKS alecmuffett.com/…/168848
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs To me it’s rather ironic that the people

    Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs To me it’s rather ironic that the people having this argument are largely working in the archetypal AI research language of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s: indeed, i h…

    LINKS yhetil.org/…/[email protected]

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