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People want to know about LLM use for various reason.
I think the main reason is an ethical one. LLMs use a lot energy, datacenters are bad for the environment, people lose their job due to AI, LLMs are trained on stolen data. There is many reasons why someone would not want an LLM project.
And let's be real, there is a lot of issues with app being vibe coded and being shit real fast.
So when presenting a project to the world, people will definitely ask, and you can respond or not, and be on your way.
It's naive to think that people won't use LLMs, but it's also naive to think that people only care about the end results, especially on a platform where people are generally more sensitive to ethical considerations.
I want to answer because I have not done anything wrong here. Reading these comments, you would think I created this whole AI wave and I am personally responsible for it because I shipped a project. As if there are the traitors / the bad ones on one side, and the purists who still craft by hand the old way on the other.
I said it in a previous comment: we are not here to debate LLM use. This is starting to feel like a witch hunt. Some people seemed to be waiting for the first project to land so they could come and check whether any line of code was written by a human and not by an LLM. Because LLMs are less ethical than humans, of course. :)
On security and privacy: I already answered that in a previous comment. The normal behavior is to check what you install before you do it. Most of the arguments thrown at me here are without foundation, and some are clearly bad-faith.
To Croquette: the three concerns you name (energy use, jobs, training data) are real, and I am not going to insult you by pretending otherwise.
About the vibe-coded apps worry: as a developer, I agree, those apps are going to flood the planet. But there again, that is much bigger than one person, and I do not like generalizations. Are all those apps going to be bad? I do not think so.
About unemployment: mass unemployment driven by AI has already started, and it will probably keep going. I do not have a crystal ball, but in the short term I see real misery for many families. That is not a direct consequence of LLMs or of human inventions in general. It is something older and more primitive: human greed and the race for personal gain. When you promise a manager he can double or triple his salary by using AI to automate the tasks his subordinates used to do, he is not going to hesitate. Except in the rare cases where innate, intrinsic values are dominant, and I have not crossed many of those people.
About energy and preserving the planet: huge topic too. We were already in deep shit before AI and nobody moved. Greed again, and sometimes plain stupidity.
I am not brave enough to carry on my own shoulders the fight against the consequences of a world that has always run after "I need more". I admit it.
About the platform being more ethics-sensitive than most: you are right, and that is exactly why I am taking the time to answer in detail instead of brushing the question off.
If we are talking ethics seriously, the browser you used to type these lines, the terminal, the text editor, the compiler, the PC, the phone, all of those raise much bigger ethical questions than an AWS services emulator that the audience here has not even tested. (Yes, that one is a bit of a troll.)
For my part, I do not hide behind a pseudonym, and I would not spend my time leaving very negative comments on someone else's project just for fun. Which is the impression a few of these comments give.
Do not assume you are the ones who hold the ethics and that everyone else is on the wrong side. History has shown us that it is much more nuanced than that, and that binary thinking is often a sign of much more dangerous ideas.
please, speak for yourself.
you are the one person presenting this app. defend your personal choices, and maybe take longer to consider everything said here before you do it again.
that's often how things bigger than one person change- one person at a time
aquafunk, the planet is in shit just for me, apparently. Not for the rest of humanity. Maybe I am the only one breathing pollution every day in most of the places I go, and the only one who has felt the climate change of the last twenty years that everyone else around me has been feeling too. Or maybe that one is also a scam invented by LLMs.
On "you are the one person presenting this app": yes, I am the one presenting it, and I am proud of what I shipped. I am also humble about it. A side question, since you took the time to lecture me about personal responsibility: did you install it? Did you actually try it? Do you work with AWS on a daily basis? Are you boycotting AWS too, since AWS is built on top of a mountain of open-source software they make profit from, and since AWS also uses LLMs to ship its features?
Those are all good questions, about the vendors the companies I buy things from, and my responsibility in their actions
Maybe I should use less products that use AWS and you could consider your impact when using large language models to publish open source software. I'm almost certain both are in fact true statements, and if you knew me, you'd know I think "should" is strong language
If you want me to make a list of the products and services I avoid? How about this: I feel guilt when I use a service or buy a thing from someone I know I shouldn't. I try not to do it out of pure convenience, and I don't try to defend the behavior when I fuck up
Im truly sorry you suffered the ire of those who think your use of it is both wreckless and purely conveience based, but thems the breaks when you want to cut corners, dont care if its a hobby project or youre curing cancer- we can break the planet in scales previously unimaginable with our short sighted behaviour and Im about damn tired of "but everybody else is doing it"
why not try building a community around coding and maintaing an AWS stack replacement? maybe other human beings would help you with the parts you could use some help with?
it's plenty irrational to solve the outcome of shit w/ applying even more of it.