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This should be the top comment.

I think it's pretty sad that he even had to write it. Quite a lot of judgement from people who aren't paying his bills.

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Yeah a big reason you see so much pushback on clanker slop is that it's having (and there was certainly the expectation of it having) a negative impact on the ability of plenty of people to pay their bills.

Nice to know we've got slurs for LLMs and their users now. Very nice.

It's not a slur, clankers ain't people.

If corporations can be people, there is no reason why AI can't be considered a person.

Nobody human considers a corporation to be a person. It is merely a legal expedient.

I used to think that until I did a little digging into it. Specifically, corporations are considered legal persons because they are separate legal entities, thereby creating a wall between your personal affairs and your business. It protects your personal assets from any liabilities, debts, or lawsuits.

Also, since it's a separate entity, its lifetime is not tied to the owner. So if the owner dies, their shares are inherited by somebody else, and the company keeps operating.

It helps in raising money for business operations. A corporation raises capital by issuing and selling shares of stock. However, if a physical person did that, I think it would be called indentured servitude.


It takes something far more hollow and soulless even than a clanker to type a thing like this.

Corporations are aggregations of people.

Are AIs?


A corporation is a separate entity. They hire people to work for them, but any liabilities incurred by the Corporation are rarely passed through to the workers. If you pay attention, it's more likely for a worker to go to jail or be held responsible for a screw-up by the legal system than one of the suits at the top.

also people calling all AI is shite, might not have used top tier models. They put $20, tried Sonnet, got sloppy code and called it a day.

The title at least sounds less like judgement and more analysis and more about AI assistance (and claude in particular) than rsync. Maybe I am too used to postmortems!

I think they're talking about the whole twitter and github issue things.



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