Mastodawn

RE: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597

I'll spare you my rambling thoughts. If someone wants to fork HarfBuzz 12.3.2, go ahead, that's before AI "slop". I let @khaled, the HarfBuzz maintainer, decide whether AI-assisted code is allowed in the upstream HarfBuzz or not.

As for code quality, I'm ultimately the only one responsible for code that I push out.

Finally, if this technology is good for Linus, Guido, and Knuth, among others, I'm not gonna ignore it and let my projects and skills become irrelevant and obsolete.

I respectfully ask that you refrain from your urge to leave a 🤮 or equivalent in the comments. Thanks.

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Dan "18pF flip-flop"

@behdad @khaled Congrats on the new release and courage to both experiment with the new agentic approaches and clearly communicate it to users. Agents can most definitely be put to very good use under skilled supervision and — although I respect part of the arguments used against AI — the full hatred and dismissal of such techniques by some makes me feel there’s an egotistical component they don’t realize, especially when AI can assist so many understaffed OSS projects.