A very important question is being hypothesized here and I hope we all come to a conclusion sooner rather than later.
Is it better for a FOSS project to be abandoned because a single maintainer is overwhelmed? OR Should a single maintainer use LLM tools to continue a project they no longer are able to handle?
I personally see abandoned projects easier to pick up when left “as is” for someone to eventually come in. Doing massive amounts of ai code that eventually breaks the functionality (or presumably does), and then expecting people to come in to a larger shit storm seems daunting.
Fact is there’s a bunch of 50+ engineers that have been looking after these fundamental components for a long time, and people aren’t coming through to hand things off too. It won’t be long before they’ll have come to the end of their working lives and things will be abandoned.
I would prefer they walked away rather than resort to LLM agentic coding.
I don’t want to put my trans ass out there to get brigaded by assholes so open source is not my thing. Massive respect to the people who put up with fossbros.
A very important question is being hypothesized here and I hope we all come to a conclusion sooner rather than later.
Is it better for a FOSS project to be abandoned because a single maintainer is overwhelmed? OR Should a single maintainer use LLM tools to continue a project they no longer are able to handle?
I personally see abandoned projects easier to pick up when left “as is” for someone to eventually come in. Doing massive amounts of ai code that eventually breaks the functionality (or presumably does), and then expecting people to come in to a larger shit storm seems daunting.
Fact is there’s a bunch of 50+ engineers that have been looking after these fundamental components for a long time, and people aren’t coming through to hand things off too. It won’t be long before they’ll have come to the end of their working lives and things will be abandoned.
I would prefer they walked away rather than resort to LLM agentic coding.
I don’t want to put my trans ass out there to get brigaded by assholes so open source is not my thing. Massive respect to the people who put up with fossbros.
I’d have thought it would be an area where you could be viewed by the quality of what you do, and not anything else.
I might be being naive.
Yeah, sadly.
If you want to pick up this project you can take the last pre-llm version.
Or go work with the dev who is actively begging for volunteers instead of trying to make a whole new project.