I wonder if this could be startups that are testing on open source projects but eventually will release a product for companies and their proprietary code cases.
He's a pillar of the community. When i was starting out i made a basic PR to cURL to fix some typos and he was kind enough to engage and walk me through some other related changes i could add to the PR.
> I appreciate your engagement and would like to clarify the situation.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR HUMAN ENGAGEMENT IN THIS TEST.
This is so disrespectful.
Someone has to make a base.org kind of site but with AI quotes...
Do you mean bash.org?
I've never heard of base.org so if I'm thinking of the wrong thing, please let me know
I wonder if this could be startups that are testing on open source projects but eventually will release a product for companies and their proprietary code cases.
Wow that’s infuriating. Fascinating watching the maintainer respond in good faith.
bagder is both extremely grumpy about the state of it and fascinatingly patient.
He's like 80% wise old barn owl.
He's a pillar of the community. When i was starting out i made a basic PR to cURL to fix some typos and he was kind enough to engage and walk me through some other related changes i could add to the PR.
I think he's a genuinely nice person.
Here's a list of AI slop reports: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...
I've read all of them. It's interesting how over the last 2 years badger moved from being polite to zero fucks given.
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wow this is infuriating--from 2023 so i guess the proliferation of chatgpt's vernacular wasn't yet carved into the curl dev
That's interesting. Was AI slop harder to spot in 2023? I can't remember anymore when did everything really start getting flooded with it.