cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/62952528
An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style “improvements.”
It carries the heading “Engineering that’s evolved and amplified for the AI era,” and for any AI skeptics in the developer teams at Red Hat, the tone of the email may raise alarm bells. The times are changing, it states.
It’s honestly disturbing that the contamination of open source projects with LLM tool output is proceeding so fast. That nasty closed source tools trained on unethically gathered data was allowed to become a threat of this scale…
Maybe we need a movement for fully hand-coded software, as both a political statement and a baseline of quality. I doubt it will even take longer to develop and maintain, once you count all the overheads of supervising AI.
Given that code was mostly written by hand until the advent of LLM garbage that techbros are trying to make fetch…I think it is possible to do this as both to serve the multiple intended purposes. I would even suggest the teams be named after the women who made computing possible with their efforts throughout the ages! Exceptional members could belong to the Ada Lovelace, Annie Easley, Kathryn Peddrew, and Gladys West groups. As that would both honor these intelligent women who did a lot of hard work to improve computers…It would also ruffle the feathers of techbros. Which is a win-win situation for me.