"We never use AI. For anything." becomes a much weaker statement when you exclude dependencies. Your whole app could just be a thin wrapper around some third party dependency which leans heavily on AI.
It makes the manifested statements become more realistic, sure, as I doubt any dogmatic approach could even exist for long. But I don't think this warrants anybody to bring out the pitchforks and scream "HYPOCRISY!", though...
This whole thing is a matter of choice, and we shouldn't necessarily conflate the role we take when we consume/use a dependency/tool with the role of crafting own things. I, for one, can apply agency solely on things that offer me means to change them.
I think there's merit to it. It's not as if doing it exclusively with AI is all sunshine and rainbows. As someone doing agentic engineering at work I'm actually starting to sour on it after seeing what it's doing to people's ability to think for themselves and even do basic software engineering tasks.
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The app is Cork: https://github.com/buresdv/Cork/network/dependencies
It depends on Factory: https://github.com/hmlongco/Factory/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
Sticking to a strident "No AI" policy developing software is going to become increasingly difficult.
I'd be interested to see the project author's reaction to this. Will he downgrade to an older version of the library out of principle?
Why would you expect a dogmatic approach instead of a more pragmatic one?
We're discussing this on a submission of a dogmatic manifesto.
"We never use AI. For anything." doesn't mean "We audit every single one of our dependencies, and make sure they never use AI".
"We never use AI. For anything." becomes a much weaker statement when you exclude dependencies. Your whole app could just be a thin wrapper around some third party dependency which leans heavily on AI.
It makes the manifested statements become more realistic, sure, as I doubt any dogmatic approach could even exist for long. But I don't think this warrants anybody to bring out the pitchforks and scream "HYPOCRISY!", though...
This whole thing is a matter of choice, and we shouldn't necessarily conflate the role we take when we consume/use a dependency/tool with the role of crafting own things. I, for one, can apply agency solely on things that offer me means to change them.
It surely can. It's what I would assume by default.
Oh I shall propose my dependency injection lib, it has not and will never use AI…
I think there's merit to it. It's not as if doing it exclusively with AI is all sunshine and rainbows. As someone doing agentic engineering at work I'm actually starting to sour on it after seeing what it's doing to people's ability to think for themselves and even do basic software engineering tasks.
It's a dependency that clearly AI is used for during development. Fair point since the blog post is phrased like a total ban on AI in the supply chain
Edit: Landing page says "Completely free of AI. Read our stance." in the hero section. That borders on false advertising