I simply don't understand the connection you are trying to draw here. I am trying to make a case against gate keeping in web development and you are... I don't know.
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Calling it gate keeping is an escape hatch from further critique of how it works, how one learns with it and how it isn't a substitute for actual learning or development. ESLint can tell you what's wrong the first time. You have to hope that the LLM pulled the right words (or have experience to +
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+ have it generate probabilistic plausible text close to what you're looking for). If anything, the only folks gated are those who don't have experience (which is what gatekeeping originally meant, policing access) . In the case of queer marriages, it's still predominantly a white +
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+ space and lane that still, while providing protections afforded in a system based on ownership, fails to address the larger issue of acceptance (and for most, they choose to stop there). That choice to move gatekeeping to include LLM use is that.
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As I hope you know, I have tremendous respect for you as a thinker so I'm surprised to find ourselves on opposite sides here. I think LLMs are a new way for web developers to become web developers. I think more web developers is a good thing.
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That's fine. Yeah, I wasn't expecting agreement on this in like 20 minutes. I probably won't be in the space in a decade anyway 🤷🏾
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