I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 days ago

    Pretty weird to read the author’s joy of pre-AI coding, their concerns about what’s happened over the last few years to open source and public repo management, have them laser-focus on exactly where it all went wrong… and then at 2/3rds though the article go, “oh btw I use AI constantly and I’m not changing, and I don’t suggest anyone change. Its just such damn shame, I can’t think of a solution”.

    Solution is right there, friend.

    Return to monke.

    Ban the slop on your repos (as many projects have). Go back to using your brain. Go back to enjoying coding, and the community of coding with others through open source.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      16·
      2 days ago

      The point of Open-Source is to allow that. This is what differentiates Open-Source from Free Software and why people invented the term and founded the organisation behind it.

      The Free Software side of things did improve on licensing with the AGPL.

    • terabyterex@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 day ago

      if you change that then its not ooensource. you have the freedom to create any license you want but restrictions on use is no longer open.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Copyright probably won’t fix it, especially now that you can Malus yourself a bespoke fork.

      The core problem is that they’re too big to care. They don’t have to listen to customers, employees, or competitors. We need antitrust action and union organizing.

  • Alex@lemmy.ml
    18·
    2 days ago

    The project I’m working on has had regular discussion about whether we should move from our email list and patch workflow to a more PR focused approach for a number of years now. Something that works for us greybeards is anathema to younger engineers who grew up on GitHub.

    I suspect the current slopocolypse is going to delay that move for a few more years until this wave of disruption has settled down.