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They don't though, very few people were anti AI in the early days. Open source projects were largely initially very interested in LLM usage, and generally had a
by 20k 2mo ago
They don't though, very few people were anti AI in the early days. Open source projects were largely initially very interested in LLM usage, and generally had a pro AI contribution policy. This changed when it did not help their lives
Eg if you check out Godot, initially they were cool with LLM code, and then had to clamp down on it because it was not leading to anything good
- mihaelm 2mo agoScaling AI use in highly-collaborative environments, which open source projects are, is very challenging. I totally understand the apprehensiveness around it.
- 20k 2mo agoHow is it challenging for open source projects? You just write a PR, and try to get it to meet the maintainer's quality bar. That's exactly how all code is written in any environment - you do code review and refine a PR until its good enough to be merged
- mihaelm 2mo agoWith AI and how a lot of people use it, the quantity of written PRs goes up, but the quality goes down, and the maintainers of the project, who are often volunteers, now have to deal with this in addition to the standard work they've been doing before.
- 20k 2mo agoThis doesn't seem to match the claims of 10x productivity that are being levied though. In fact it seems like the overall productivity is lower