Just seeing the list here: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
I don't know what to think about it, many incredible open-source projects went downhill, some worse than others, full AI permission usage and some of them even advertise AI providers on README.md. I'm even using many of them myself.
Even the good guys are falling, I'm not sure what to think about it. Am I overreacting maybe?
You might think, that's fine, not a big deal, some of them just allow AI usage, but not AI generated code, but for how long? If you allow use of AI for anything the tendency is that you'll be even more open about it in the future.
List of projects that personally draw my attention or I use eventually:
- Firefox: not unexpected, but still, I had hope on Mozilla bring more tech awareness on mainstream
- Spaceship prompt: I use this on my terminal for customization, why'd you need AI for such a simple project?
- VLC: just sad
- curl: sad x 10
- Vim: sad x 20
- zoxide: they literally promoting AI providers in the README, such a simple tool as well, why?
- CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd: the few ones providing a good alternative to Google Maps
- Element: that's literally the most used client for Matrix I guess?
- Python: I thought they were the good guys as well
- Lemmy: unexpected, code of conduct says it's allowed
- Linux: the final boss, unbelievable
Is there any hope at all? Or am I just overreacting?
Shows you don't bother to actually read the mailing list or even just keep up with the open source development discussion.
Linux was probably one of the first places AI was invovled in because it's a well documented highly used software which makes it an easy test bed for LLMs to showcase their abilities.
That was 3 years ago when GPT 3 released.
That absolutely does not mean it has vibe coded slop being added to it. Bad code is still bad code, and Linus will happily tear you a new one (and hand out a ban) for submitting such garbage in a merge request.
Again, these type of posts are dumb and throw outrage at the wrong target. All this anger and disappointment should be directed at the bubble pumping machine like Nvidia, OpenAI, MSFT, etc.
All of these foss project devs would probably have no problem using a local LLM in their work (which many already do) since the hardware requirements have been steadily falling, despite Nvidia's efforts to enforce their stranglehold on cloud demand.