hanno
There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:
https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg102518.html
[gentoo-dev] Dealing with (potential) slop packages

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Show threadSebastian SchinzelMar 18

@hanno Also Vim-User können ja einfach zu Emacs rüberwechseln, da erwarte ich kein Problem.

Und da der LInux-Kernel auch LLM-Code hat, sollte Gentoo endlich auf GNU Hurd wechseln.

Man kann ja von Stallman halten, was man will. Aber LLMs hat er wenigstens noch nicht verwendet. /s

Show threadLennyMar 18
@hanno The community divide this creates is worrying enough by itself.
Show threadPhilipMar 18
@hanno I have the impression that some people want to label software built on "AI code" in a similar fashion to GMO foods 😅
People will continue to produce code of any quality at an ever increasing rate, that's just a fact. But maintenance is the key part: if key components rely on a single overworked and underfunded maintainer, direct your attention to that. Don't need an LLM to build the next xz-utils.