About enshitification, open source and AI pollution
Anyone else suspect commercial game engine are doing this to attack their FOSS (free open source software) competitor?
Unlike other engines Godot asks nothing of its users. No money, no tie in to their sales platform. It’s literally just good free software anyone is invited to try.
Sad to see it dealing with this. FOSS may be under a kind of intentional AI attack.
yes, exactly my thoughts. what if the AI-slop pull request onslaught is a way of the feudalists to weaken the FOSS community and on the long run make themselves irreplaceable? seems to be happening to a lot of maintainers
if the bubble ever collapses maybe AI use will cost too much to harass FOSS projects with it.
This. AI is not and will not be profitable. It’s afloat because of an investor circlejerk. Once they get off then it’s over. A waiting game.
There are cheaper services that use Chinese models like Deepseek, but even then I doubt they will become mainstream when the bubble bursts and if the US decides no one will use LLMs anymore because they’re not selling subscriptions for them. I guess only people savvy enough to run local LLMs or get services from elsewhere would keep using them, hopefully with more caution (yeah this is cope)
Can anyone describe the process of code contribution with open-source. It’s it like anyone hands in a code.
You make a copy of the code (“fork”) for yourself, make edits, then request that your changes be accepted into the original project (“pull/merge request”). Someone from the project has to check the edits, make that decision and hit accept or decline.
Ideally, you’d also first talk to the developers in charge of the project to see if your changes would be wanted in the first place.
(Or you’d start by reviewing existing bug reports and feature requests and addressing one of those.)
What I mean is, it’s generally better to not just throw code at them and hope they’ll like it. If you check first to see if they want it, you can save yourself from wasting effort on writing code that they’ll decline.
I assume when people do that it’s because they’re going to be making the fork regardless, and they think they’re being helpful by submitting a pull request with thier AI slop… But really they should just keep it on thier own fork if they don’t understand the changes but want to use it regardless…
generally yeah. the problem is that the barrier to entry used to be higher so fewer people knew how to write code to integrate with the project before coding agents. now anyone who can install Claude Code has a seat at that table
Really awful website with more ads and shit than content.
Nevertheless worrysome and indeed food for tough. Ai is here to stay, so we all need to find ways to deal with it, that we like it or not.
Maybe specialized humans in detect ai slop? Because using ai to detect ai seems kind of hironic.
There is the new vouch system too
Use ai to make code to detect and block AI. Actually though wish we could force an AI tag tat could just be blocked with UBO
But what polices that? And what’s to stop humans pasting in the AI code, which may look like human code, just behave poorly or contain hallucinations.
Humans in the loop? Code would have to be read and understood by the human, in relation to the problem being resolved, and the rest of the code base it may or may not interact with… And that’s difficult.
Can they require that all code submissions have a natural language summary of it included?
AIs are better at that than most humans lol
AI can do that. At least well enough to not help, and it would make actual human-generated code harder.
