Mastodawn

It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.

Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.

Are we looking at "open source" versus "open source + AI" now?

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Garrett Mace

@rasterweb Sifting through FOSS projects for quality and well-maintained ones was already hard. Community tools were created like "awesome-" lists to help identify good ones. LLM usage has made this at least 10x harder. While good projects could exist that have used AI for development, there's hardly any baby in that bathwater so it's easier to toss it all out.