Baldur BjarnasonIf you had any doubt that the rise of LLM tools is a threat to F/OSS, even beyond the fact that its trained on it without permission, and is now frequently used to replace it (why import a battle-tested library when you can have an "agent" half-ass it?), people are now using LLMs to create derivative rewrites of open source projects to give them cover for bullshit relicensing attempts.
Michael Simons@baldur In the last weeks I have seen several Java people push out AI based rewrites of something like Ratatui (TUI framework in Rust), or Kairo (SVG rendering) as "the next big thing".
It's everywhere.
@baldur Not that I mind having options, especially on things that had been neglected in "my" ecosystem so far.
I do question the sustainability of these things, even in the midterm run. If they are only "show offs", it takes away from the original, and puts inevitable tech debt on anyone building atop.
@rotnroll666 Yeah, disconnecting software from a knowledgable community volunteering relevant expertise to solve a problem doesn't seem like a long-term sustainable practice.