It's not just using an LLM to assist. It's more generating the whole source with an LLM, running it once to check if it seems to work (if it "vibes" good) and then publishing it without even trying to read through and understand the code.
Edit: just to clarify, the odds are that the generated code performs awfully, doesn't handle even the simplest edge cases and has security problems.
At least in some countries authors get a compensation every time their book is borrowed from a library. So you might still be indirectly supporting the author when borrowing from a library. Also if there's enough demand, the library may acquire additional copies and the prices for libraries are higher than for consumers.
https://equityatlas.org/how-do-authors-make-money-from-libraries/
Conversely, when you are borrowing a book from an author you like, you probably are supporting them and do not need obliged to purchase it for yourself.
Not that it makes it any better, but the billions they have are mostly imaginary. It's not cash or even concrete numbers on a bank account. It's just a speculative valuation of what they own and most of the value comes from stocks on a company. Stocks that only have value as long as they are desirable for someone else and there is no surplus of them on the market. They could never cash out that value and even trying to cash out a significant portion would crash the stock price and their wealth. But as long as they possess this assumed wealth, they are granted almost unlimited credit to cover any purchase.
There's something that doesn't go well with me on Adam and Ben and I always hope they lose. Unfortunately they have the edge because of they have all the experience of this show and familiarity with each other. Tom seemed a bit uncomfortable here. Probably because this is an actual competition with a lot of stress factors and he seemed very competitive. Everything else I've seen him on has been much more casual in a controlled environment. On the Layover podcast he sounded more like the usual. I really liked the Technical Difficulties references and on the cut bits there were many more one-off comments that didn't fit the episodes.
I also like the concept, but many of the topics are not what I would expect. What I expected and found really funny were topics like Ikechukwu Ufomadu's "not much", Foreign's "reaction creators" or Augusta Chapman's "Getting Involved in Some Hoopla.”. But then we have people people complaining about something very specific that (they claim) happened to them or how someone famous named their child. Looking back it seems the topics have become more nonsensical and unfunny on every episode.
Like few other shows on Nebula, this falls in the unflattering middle ground where they can make the production look quite professional, but it just highlights the flaws.
In one of the Tantacrul's videos he says that UI/UX people do try to help and share their expertise, but the programmers running the projects ignore them or are actively dismissive, so they give up.
https://youtu.be/12TJ-zTgiH0 Around 16:20
While more donations and contributors are always welcome, the thing open source projects really need to break through are project leaders and UX designers to polish the software to make it more appealing.
Blender has come a long way in recent years by concentrating on these. There are also excellent videos by Tantacrul about his work on Musescore and Audacity after he made a video about Musescore and they got in touch with him to fix the problems he brought up.
Please make it stop
This was also my first thought when I saw the post. His other effects are also really cool.
https://youtu.be/PBSB-l0O9qA