It’s been a rough couple of weeks for open source There have been some high profile attacks like the TeamPCP events. Anthropic has a new model that’s going to create more security vulnerabilities than anyone can count. The number of security bug reports is going through the roof. AI slop is running rampant through GitHub. And let’s not even try to count all the hot takes from the LinkedInIstas. It’s clear we should never trust open source again, but we should trust someone on linkedin whose company is built on top of all open source and uses AI to do everything. This feels like animal farm but the animals have all been replaced with frozen burritos. All burritos are equal, but some burritos like my linkedin posts!
  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Terrible take.

    While I think that AI should be avoided (or at least very closely monitored) in open source projects, the author here is completely ignoring the fact that proprietary software is hitting the same pitfalls just as bad if not worse.

  • earthworm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    *for most people on the internet.

    For the rest of us, it’s important to be able to look inside of a thing we’re using and see that it’s not going to fry our machine, or use it to mine crypto, or spy on us.