yes, exactly my thoughts. what if the AI-slop pull request onslaught is a way of the feudalists to weaken the FOSS community and on the long run make themselves irreplaceable? seems to be happening to a lot of maintainers

Hanlons razor.. probably just lots and lots of peaple + stupidity. But it could very well be both..

This. AI is not and will not be profitable. It's afloat because of an investor circlejerk. Once they get off then it's over. A waiting game.

There are cheaper services that use Chinese models like Deepseek, but even then I doubt they will become mainstream when the bubble bursts and if the US decides no one will use LLMs anymore because they're not selling subscriptions for them. I guess only people savvy enough to run local LLMs or get services from elsewhere would keep using them, hopefully with more caution (yeah this is cope)

It won't sadly. I can run many on my computer. They'll still be available, even if every server-based one goes down.

There is the new vouch system too

Use ai to make code to detect and block AI. Actually though wish we could force an AI tag tat could just be blocked with UBO

Humans in the loop? Code would have to be read and understood by the human, in relation to the problem being resolved, and the rest of the code base it may or may not interact with... And that's difficult.

You make a copy of the code ("fork") for yourself, make edits, then request that your changes be accepted into the original project ("pull/merge request"). Someone from the project has to check the edits, make that decision and hit accept or decline.

generally yeah. the problem is that the barrier to entry used to be higher so fewer people knew how to write code to integrate with the project before coding agents. now anyone who can install Claude Code has a seat at that table

AIs are better at that than most humans lol

AI can do that. At least well enough to not help, and it would make actual human-generated code harder.