Mastodawn

#Code reviews seem to be the biggest bottleneck in software development right now.

Open source package ecosystems are victims of their own success. There's a long tail of iffy packages that nobody has reviewed, and nobody wants to.

For the top projects, maintenance is tough. Stakes are high. Reviews are hard. Contributions are meh quality (even before LLMs). It's not just code, but a people problem too. GitHub's primitive workflow wastes everyone's time.

Something's gonna break.

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mcc

@kornel It seems to me that the reasoning in this thread is a good argument why, among a number of other reasons, we need to be building out an alternative open source community where use of LLMs is banned by project policy, community mores, and if possible the software license. Nothing else preserves the open source community in a form that resembles what it once was, or for that matter a form worth keeping around