> So losing a bunch of them won't impact the technological advancement of your society.
This reminds me of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide, where a civilization decides that phone sanitizers are useless, until removing them quietly collapses everything else. Declaring work “non-essential to progress” usually just means we don’t understand its role.
The policy isn’t about whether those tools raise good points. It’s about not letting agents act autonomously in project spaces. Human reviewed, opt in use is explicitly allowed.
Maybe not targeted specifically at this project, but… can we please stop turning everything into a business idea?
It’s something I’ve been noticing more and more over the last few years: everything gets turned into some kind of monetization scheme, or at least it feels like nothing has value unless it can be turned into money.
That said, good luck with your endeavor!
P.S.: RAMBnB? Do you eat RAM for breakfast in bed? Bold choice! :D
Oh wow. That something like this is necessary is kind of sad. At first (while reading the title), I thought they just didn’t want AI-generated contributions at all (which would be understandable as well). But all they are actually asking for is that one understands (and label) the contributions they submit, regardless of whether those are AI-generated, their own work, or maybe even written by a cat (okay, that last one was added by me ;).
Reading through the (first few) comments and seeing people defending the use of pure AI tools is really disheartening. I mean, they’re not asking for much just that one reviews and understands what the AI produced for them.
The problem with calling it “full stack” (even if it has a widely understood meaning) is that it implicitly puts the people doing the actual lower-level work on a pedestal. It creates the impression that if this is already “full stack,” then things like device drivers, operating systems, or foundational libraries must be some kind of arcane magic reserved only for experts, which they aren’t.
The term “full stack” works fine within its usual context, but when viewed more broadly, it becomes misleading and, in my opinion, problematic.
Or, alternatively, it ignores and devalues the existence of these parts. In both cases, it's a weird "othering" of software below a certain line in the, ahem, full stack.
This reminds me of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide, where a civilization decides that phone sanitizers are useless, until removing them quietly collapses everything else. Declaring work “non-essential to progress” usually just means we don’t understand its role.
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