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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Not to be dramatic but, is this the end of open source? Or at least the open contribution systems? I feel like I see this story every day now...

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to "mentor" first-time contributors (making sure they aren't an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs.

    That seems like it would greatly limit the number of contributors, and especially over time, since you'd never have any new ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    ive seen developers complain about shitty prs before ai, ive seen devs literally not accept prs because they dont want to waste time understanding someone else's code. so no, this is a non issue.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't be quite so dismissive, this is a different scale than we've seen before, but I don't think it's the end of open contribution.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    ive also seen a lot of faster development or a lot of new software surface emerge thanks to this, while there is a downside, this also opens doors. i think this is a perfect scenario to use these massive tools created by capital to give something back to the people.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Need some way to sort contributors by "trust", e.g. if their PRs have been accepted before, if their account has existed before GenAI was invented, etc

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