Comment by deeviant
12 days ago
Projects that deny AI contribution will simply disappear when an agent can reproduce their entire tech stack in a single prompt within a couple years. (not there yet, but the writing is on the wall at this point).
Whatever the right response to that future is, this feels like the way of the ostrich.
I fully support the right of maintainers to set standards and hold contributors to them, but this whole crusader against AI contribution just feels performative, at this point, almost pathetic. The final stand of yet another class of artisans to watch their craft be taken over by machines, and we won't be the last.
The fact that it will be easy to clone something doesn't automatically change much.
Why do you assume that I will actually use a random clone instead of the original?
The original will somehow not have all the same benefits as any of the clones that aren't garbage?
What makes the original project disappear?