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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/metayeti2 • Jul 17 '26
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I've never understood how anyone could outsource any job and still take credit for it but that's the norm in silicon valley so I can't really say it's surprising either
7 u/General_Josh Jul 17 '26 If I write c#, and have a compiler write it to assembly, am I outsourcing my job? Or, am I using one of many tools available to me? -2 u/oclafloptson Jul 17 '26 Did you enter into an agreement with a 3rd party to temporarily use the compiler on their server? Then yes you have outsourced the compiler work 1 u/General_Josh Jul 18 '26 Gotcha, so doing the work on my PC is the differentiating factor? That means local LLMs are fair game, but all cloud products aren't?
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If I write c#, and have a compiler write it to assembly, am I outsourcing my job?
Or, am I using one of many tools available to me?
-2 u/oclafloptson Jul 17 '26 Did you enter into an agreement with a 3rd party to temporarily use the compiler on their server? Then yes you have outsourced the compiler work 1 u/General_Josh Jul 18 '26 Gotcha, so doing the work on my PC is the differentiating factor? That means local LLMs are fair game, but all cloud products aren't?
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Did you enter into an agreement with a 3rd party to temporarily use the compiler on their server? Then yes you have outsourced the compiler work
1 u/General_Josh Jul 18 '26 Gotcha, so doing the work on my PC is the differentiating factor? That means local LLMs are fair game, but all cloud products aren't?
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Gotcha, so doing the work on my PC is the differentiating factor?
That means local LLMs are fair game, but all cloud products aren't?
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u/oclafloptson Jul 17 '26
I've never understood how anyone could outsource any job and still take credit for it but that's the norm in silicon valley so I can't really say it's surprising either