LPMs, LLMs, and the future of software
2026-05-06 17:50:29.380879+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments
arclight @arclight@oldbytes.space
More and more I feel that software is something that's inflicted on me rather than something I create or control that serves me.
And the rest of the thread, but/and then Cassandrich @dalias@hachyderm.io
@arclight It sounds like the problem you're addressing is not "publicly distributing code" that might be dangerous, but the catastrophe of LPMs (language package managers) making unvetted code posted by any random author into something that's essentially part of the language's standard library.
with some more good points and, outside of that thread, Cassandrich @dalias@hachyderm.io
I call this a hot take because it's not really nuanced or accurate.
But the idea is that both LLM codegen and LPMs are systems for assembling a bunch of unvetted code of dubious provenance from sources you don't want to be aware of to rapidly get something that "kinda works".
LLM is just taking it to a much further and more malicious degree that's hostile to the authors of the code you're ingesting as well.