Comment by luk212
4 days ago
Bad patches are of course bad, but creating confident-looking noise for maintainers who are already stretched thin...now that's not good!
Issue trackers and PRs are definitely getting harder and harder to trust. That said, AI is helping ALOT in OSS, but we definitely need guardrails around provenance, automated issue actions, and sudden changes in a contributor’s behavior.
How is it helping a lot?
From first-hand experience, for established OSS initiatives it's good for repetitive, high-volume work task like security alerts, fuzzing, duplicate issue detection, PR review, summarizing long threads, and legacy refactoring.
I personally find the barrier of starting new (FOSS) projects much lower now days.
What if -- and bear with me here -- that barrier was actually a good thing?
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It's like... 10 million trello clones in rust with exactly seven commits made on the same day three months ago.
Do they have value? Purpose?
I vibe code shop jigs all the time but I don’t FOSS them because they rarely have value outside my context.
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And how's the quality of these vibe-coded new foss projects?
web-of-trust models can help https://blog.tangled.org/vouching/