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People send you code because they need functionality, not to help you with "overall coding". And they do it because they need it now, not when (and if) you will make that functionality on your own.
But ok. You don't want code, you'll stop receiving it. Not like we can force you to use it.
Farewell.
So we're replacing open source collaborators with LLMs? And if someone wants to contribute you want the prompt, not the code?
For fucks sake, people. I've been slinging code for thirty years. I write much better code than a lot of folks (though some certainly write better). I also am capable of reviewing my own generated code and fixing it so you don't have to.
I get corporations trying to replace expensive coders with LLMs, but when volunteer work is being replaced by LLMs, what in the actual fuck are we even doing?
I have a similar attitude to PRs on my projects even though I don't use LLMs. Doing something myself is just simply faster that reviewing someone else's code, it's potential to be malicious, wasting time on the back and forth, contributors not following the project standards.
LLM's may be a piece of the puzzle for this guy, but I have the same opinion without them.
Sounds like the PRs are too big or something. IDK. I've been doing a lot of code reviews the past 10 years. But those have all been within teams or with partners. Never someone random from the internet. The review sounds easier to me than communicating feedback and getting the submitter to fix their code and submit an acceptable version.
Yeah, it is very different with a team member / known long time contributor. I am taking about random people opening a PR.
Descending into mass AI Psychosis?
Who is this and why should we care what they think?
They have a bunch of small tools written in rust, none of which I've ever heard of.
The correct questions
From their homepage: "I'm a long time Open Source user and contributor, a software engineer by profession and passion." Yes, so much passion that I mostly now tell a computer to do it for me, can't be bothered reading the existing code to understand it and I discourage others from putting effort in to learn and then contribute.
I think this article Agentic coding impact on oss is related. In this case the author is outright saying "don't submit PRs", but in many other cases authors are not catching up with PRs so people just fork.
All in all, I think the impact of LLMs in open source will likely be significant over time.
I think we'll also see more of a differentiation between things grounded in open source ideology, like the FSF, and more corporate open source. I can't blame coders for any ideological impurity because I don't imagine that "buy me a coffee" button exactly fills up their bank vault with gold coins. That said, I appreciate the free software heroes who visualize what the world should be and work towards that. Maybe in the coming decade, we'll see FOSS hardware make some leaps and bounds. I choose to remain optimistic, but the software world is threatening to catastrophically implode at the moment and it's a bit hard to think positive.
"I have benefited from open-source before, but now discourage collaboration and only want clankers to submit code."
At first, I thought this about going to the gym.
Get forked!
Well, fork you and fork off!
