I thought sharpening my craft in software for a decade would help; but, the more I read ancient scriptures, the more sense they started making -- and this is as someone who's been mostly agnostic.
Seeing people working on nostalgic apps, wealth-pursuing prompt management tools, or ideological open-source alternatives. I've worked myself in many types of software of similar kinds, and I've found.. not much at the other side of the pursuit.
Some call it “הֶבֶל”; “तृष्णा”; or, “تَكَاثَرَ”...
I'm the cofounder of Krea (https://www.krea.ai/). We build creative tools and large-scale infrastructure for multimedia teams. Users range from hobbyists to world-renowned creatives: architects behind the World Trade Center or creative teams at Apple.
We treat research, engineering, and creativity as first-class citizens; we want engineers for our research, product, and supercomputing teams.
Just say GenAI-free; organic software (written by organic agents as opposed to silicon-based ones); or, literally anything that actually means what you wrote.
I liked it immediately, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until I saw your comment.
To me, "vegetarianism" is a much better label than "organic" or "GenAI-free". People who buy "organic" and "free range" do so because they believe it's better: higher quality, healthier, etc. (Whether they're right depends a lot on the requirements placed on that label and how those requirements are enforced, but that's tangential here.)
On the other hand, vegetarianism used to be this weird, niche thing that people made fun of. Vegetarians had to fight for acceptance. This is exactly how I feel about this new world that I find myself in, where AI is being shoved down everyone's throat and where developers (like me) who resist it are treated like a weird, niche group of outcasts.
It might be better to shoot for terms that have more positive associations. e.g. Someone might claim to be a fan of "soul code" (i.e. Code made by people with souls and not LLM's). Soul food is pretty tasty after all.
Not GP but I like that “organic” implies that it came from a living organism. “Organic content” both carries the idea of specificity of consumption and also the idea that the content was produced by a living organism. The association maps directly onto what OP is referring to.
“Vegetarian” works insofar as it borrows the context of specificity of consumption, but only directly implies consuming non-animal products, which doesn’t map onto the OPs meaning as nicely.
I think it was a mistake to apply a label to the normal, default case of food that comes from living organisms. We should have just called it food. The label should have been "inorganic" or something, for the unnatural, non-default case.
Same for software. We don't need to justify a new "human made" label. Just call that stuff software. They should need to differentiate their "AI made" software with a label.
Organic in the sense of chemistry meaning... coming from an organism, at least in the original sense. Chemistry expanded this to carbon chemistry with some exceptions and no particularly exact rules (it's a term that doesn't get all that much focus from experts, sorry pedants)
I'm the cofounder of Krea (https://www.krea.ai/), a company building creative tooling and large-scale infrastructure for multimedia teams. Users range from hobbyists to world-renowned creatives: architects behind the World Trade Center or creative teams at Apple.
We treat research, engineering, and creativity as first-class citizens. We're looking for engineers to join our research, product, and infra teams.
As suspected, this project was possible, in part, because of LLM models. I have also been exploring in using LLMs for Gameboy Color testing.
There is something quite ironic about old hardware becoming increasingly useful due to current developments in AI research. I wonder about the repercussions of this.
As AI companies buy up the supply of hardware, we'll be increasingly dependent on obsolete hardware. So it's a good solution for the problem it created.
Before anyone gets the impression that the whole thing was done by AI (like I did), it seems this wasn't vibe coded, more AI-assisted:
"Generative AI (Large Language Models) have been used for research and debugging help in the course of this project. Small amounts of boilerplate code have also been written by LLM (C++ class and interface definitions). I do not intend to make this a "Vibe Coded" project. Pull requests automatically generated by a LLM tool will not be accepted."
AI did not enable anything in this project. According to the readme, it was only used a tiny bit. It would've been possible 100% without AI.
In fact, I had this exact idea on my list of potential future projects for a while so I could teach myself more low-level programming. I avoid AI like the plague in everything I work on, and I still very much considered it doable.
I thought sharpening my craft in software for a decade would help; but, the more I read ancient scriptures, the more sense they started making -- and this is as someone who's been mostly agnostic.
Seeing people working on nostalgic apps, wealth-pursuing prompt management tools, or ideological open-source alternatives. I've worked myself in many types of software of similar kinds, and I've found.. not much at the other side of the pursuit.
Some call it “הֶבֶל”; “तृष्णा”; or, “تَكَاثَرَ”...
Still working on it.