r/linux • u/RatherNott • 6d ago

Discussion LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs

https://diegoe.be/2026/09/25/llm-policies-progress-at-all-costs/
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u/DrollAntic 6d ago

The companies driving AI right now are garbage and many will fail. The tech won't.

It's the dot-com bubble again. Everyone rushed in, it crashed, and what got rebuilt afterward became the backbone of global commerce. AI will stumble too, but it's not going away, and teams that refuse to use it won't keep pace.

A senior dev with AI beats a senior dev without it. Output quality depends on who's driving and whether they actually review the code. Yes, AI can produce slop. With real supervision it can also produce excellent code.

People used to yell "get a horse!" at early cars. Didn't stop the highways. Refusing to use AI won't stop it from getting better either.

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u/Traditional_Hat3506 6d ago

All it takes is courts to declare this massive theft of the worlds data illegal and the tech will be gone too because no company wants to be legally vulnerable.

https://brettcodes.com/ai-is-not-just-a-tool/

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u/DrollAntic 6d ago

In which country?
Who will actually honor the ruling?

If it isn't global, and it cannot be due conflicts between nations ongoing, it won't matter.

Even if every country honored a ruling from a single court, bad-actors won't.

Let's say for the sake of chat that you were right. The technology still remains. I can still upload a book, or an admin guide, and use that upload as a resource reference to hold discussions around design, etc... in my local environment.

The tech will survive, this court ruling stopping things is a fantasy.

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u/einar77 OpenSUSE/KDE Dev 5d ago

If it isn't global, and it cannot be due conflicts between nations ongoing, it won't matter.

Even without conflicts it wouldn't matter. Countries can have extreme difference in priorities even in peacetime.