second best time to switch is now.

If you like to use recent stuff I would suggest questioning if Debian is the right approach. I would like to recommend CachyOs.

Was für ein Unsinn.

Conveniently ignoring the rest of the text. People don’t know what a c compiler will generate either, a minimal code change can trigger a different optimization, generating completely different output.

It vomits a black box

no, it generates readable source code.

The same argument can be made about calculators.

A JIT compiler generates code depending on the hot path driven by user actions - which are non-deterministic. The same happens when a compiler is deterministic but in a different way than developers think. Developers think they know what code is generated, but they don’t. A compiler translates a double loop or a stream into just one SIMD instruction - they think they know what code the compiler generates, but they don’t - so their trust in the compiler is for the wrong reasons. And even if compilers would be fully deterministic, and people would know the code they generate, compilers are so complex that determinism is not useful for verification - just because ‘someone’ looks at compiler output does not mean it’s correct.

https://www.tabulamag.com/p/non-determinism-is-not-the-problem

First thing I did after the update

This is about KDE and its AI policy.

There is no law that prohibits AI use. Telling people what to do also does not work it is usually met with resistance.

Telling other people what to do is also a major conflict driver.

I think it is more important to leave people the freedom to decide for themselves. It’s not an opensource project’s place to tell its contributers how to work as long as the contribution fits their requirements. No one’s opinion is worth more than the other one’s.

I got you confused.

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You can be mad about that, but it has nothing to do with KDE.

This is all completely out of your control. You cannot tell people how to work in opensource and projects are completely unable to control if someone uses AI (or which one) to perform tasks, since it is not visible in the result. The easiest thing for you to do, if you don’t want to take part in it, is to put down your phone and go outside.

Yes obviously the code you commit must be yours and you need to make sure it is. That is already a rule, what’s the point of telling people how to work above that?

You cannot tell from the code necessarily anyway so anti-AI policies are hard to enforce. In the end the developer (or AI wielding human) is responsible for the code quality and its license which is what matters. All this discussion feels just like the usual culture war dividing the community. I’m more concerned about the intentions of people adding fuel to the fire.

I used to use audacity for sample editing: Cutting start and end, normalizing, removing noise of a single sample. This is totally the wrong direction for me. Everything shown in this video is done better by one of the multiple already available DAWs (e.g. ardour, bitwig).

You cannot tell from the code necessarily anyway so anti-AI policies are hard to enforce. In the end the developer (or AI wielding human) is responsible for the code quality and its license which is what matters. All this discussion feels just like the usual culture war dividing the community. I’m more concerned about the intentions of people adding fuel to the fire.