Comment by goodmythical
3 days ago
There are a few of these "maintainer said no AI pulls, so we forked it" in the wild already and I am really interested to see how it all pans out.
Like, okay, sure, maintainer says AI bug monitoring is cumbersome. One fork stops reading the AI bug monitoring, the other leans in. Isn't the latter more likely to find/fix critical/performance/security issues?
>Similar to how noone would want to drive a car that was 100% hand built by humans
Though, of course, this highlights that the market will fragment itself given that there are in fact many humans who will outright refuse machine driven cars despite mounting evidence that they are vastly safer and more efficient in a growing number of situations.
We'll likely see both "individual who won't use AI assisted software gets hacked" and "individual who won't get in a robo-taxi kills jay-walker in broad daylight"
I think the viability of the fork primarily depends on whether it has enough people motivated to maintain it long term. A turtle can win a distracted hare.
Or maybe we stop hard forks and just automate rebasing unless there's significant deviation
> There are a few of these "maintainer said no AI pulls, so we forked it" in the wild already and I am really interested to see how it all pans out.
There are also forks that go in the other direction, i.e. forking to avoid AI contributions upstream: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/
And promises to do so if it becomes necessary: https://human-emacs.org/
Will indeed be interesting to see how it all pans out.
It's already been quite interesting to witness the birth of the 'Digital Amish' throughout the past few years.
"maintainer said no AI pulls, so we forked it"
They should call it:
debAIn
>given that there are in fact many humans who will outright refuse machine driven cars
Are there though? I feel a lot of this hate is concentrated on Tesla and most of that is probably just a projection of hate on Elon. These may be the most vocal people online, but I doubt they even drive that much. Everyone who's had to drive a lot for work knows that any kind of assist on the road is extremely valuable.