Here’s the statement from IGF jurors that’s related to this. (The link is likely a repost; I don’t think the person is affiliated with IGF.) This hardline, purist stance removes all nuance over when AI. The question shouldn’t be if AI should be used at all. It should be more about how it is used. Adopting this stance doesn’t mean developers are going to be suddenly honest. Some devs will be even without this stance, but many others will take time to hide or disguise their AI use. The part about coding especially bothers me, because AI can be very useful for debugging, but to them, based on this statement, any use of AI is the same as vibe coding a whole game.

Just automating stuff like config options based on what I’m downloading (song vs a video), and whether it’s a single video/song or a playlist of videos/songs. There’s more, but I don’t wanna ramble on lol.

It’s funny that this post comes up in my feed, given I’ve been spending weeks customizing yt-dlp for my use case.

I’m sure the most common reaction to this is “Wait, he wasn’t already?”

Cats and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA!

It’s funny that the easiest way to break infrastructure around the world is not to be a world class hacker, but to ask computers to simply subtract a second from their clocks.

This reminds me of that episode on Last Week Tonight about lethal injection. Lethal injection isn’t about a “humane” way to kill someone. It’s more about providing comfort to people who support the death penalty but don’t want to think about the morbid details about killing people. I wonder how many people would stop supporting the death penalty if they were forced to witness an execution live, especially if it’s lethal injection. If the horror of witnessing a botched lethal injection doesn’t at least give people pause about the whole idea of execution, then I don’t know what will.