This debate around licensing, politics and making our FOSS efforts sustainable need to happen. It looks like for now to some people the path forward is defensive licensing? I wish at least we'd first attempt to have more strong copyleft use...

Yes, this one feature in the standard doesn't seem to reap much benefits... It's sad that it got there.

This is already an old article now. Still the core of it still rings true. The optimistic note at the end of it didn't come to pass though.

Keep in mind this is a rant, so it likely goes over the top a bit. That said, I first hand encountered some of the constructs mentioned here... I find that surprising in such a recent language indeed.

Looks like another certification circus is about to begin...

There is some truth to this. Self-hosting isn't for everyone just for the skills and compromises it requires. We need more widely available solutions without the corporate overlords.

So, you derailed and the joy is long gone in your team. This second part shows a possible way forward. Although it's probably not widely applicable (YMMV), the proposed end goal is what matters... If you stop fussing over labels but focus on what matters you're likely on the right track.

The whole Scrum training and certification industry has a problem... and it's been going on for a long time.

Interesting comparison, indeed would a clock like this be useful?

A nice followup which acts as a TL;DR for the previous piece which was fairly long indeed.

An excellent piece which explains well why the current "debate" is rotten to the core. There's no good way to engage with those tools without reinforcing some biases. Once the hype cycle is over we have a chance at proper research on the impacts... unfortunately it's not happening now when it's badly needed.

This is a funny way to point out people jumping on LLMs for tasks where it doesn't make sense.

This is a good rant, I liked it. Lots of very good points in there of course. Again: the area where it's useful is very narrow. I also nails down the consequences of a profession going full in with those tools.

A short collection of links (some already seen somewhere else in the review) which altogether draw a stark picture of the LLM industry.

This is I think the most worrying consequences of this current hype. What happens when you get a whole generation which didn't learn anything related to their culture? Is Idiocracy the next step? How close are we?
At least, it will have made very obvious the problems with how our education system evolved the past twenty years (if not more).

This also carries privacy concerns indeed even for local models. It all depends how it's inserted in the system.

This is an important position paper in my opinion. The whole obsession towards the ill defined "AGI" is shadowing important problems in the research field which have to be overcome.

Sourcehut pulled the trigger on their crawler deterrent. Good move, good explanations of the reasons too.

Unsurprisingly, Wikimedia is also badly impacted by the LLM crawlers... That puts access to curated knowledge at risk if the trend continues.

I somehow recognise myself in this piece. Not completely though, I disagree with some of the points... but we share some baggage so I recognize another fellow.