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Great article! Two aspects I haven't seen addressed so far: If people will no longer contribute to the source code directly, this means fewer people will be fa
by codethief 5mo ago
Great article! Two aspects I haven't seen addressed so far:
If people will no longer contribute to the source code directly, this means fewer people will be familiar with the code, meaning that:
- The bus factor becomes more significant. (Yes, this could partly be addressed by LLMs. But if the single maintainer disappears, this will still cause disruption until someone else takes over/forks the project.)
- Fewer people eye-ball the code for security issues (and for malicious changes by the maintainer). This, too, could be addressed by LLMs but are we all going to set up agents in the future that review all our 3rd-party dependencies' code?