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AI slop infiltrating #FOSS is so devastating.
Legendary FOSS projects are being ruined by their maintainers merging Claude PRs with HUGE LOC changes.
The number of projects untainted by this shit is getting vanishingly tiny.
I don't want slop in my software, thanks. PS: I'm a FOSS maintainer. Yes I know what it's like to maintain projects. Imo there's no excuse for huge structural LLM driven changes to your projects.
@QueerMatters
It's getting to the point that I never want to do an APT UPDATE && APT UPGRADE ever again because I just can't tell what the risks are.
#BanSlopCode
It’s a potentially a very dark take on all of this but it’s been stuck in my head since I thought it. I think computers may just be over for those of us like this.
Like *all* the things that drew us to these things are just gone, unless a community congeals around some values and puts up a proper ecosystem.
Don’t know what to do, but really, walking away from it all and rediscovering ourselves and what tech was all for from the beginning anyway is where I’m heading, I think. We may have gotten distracted by the game of it all along the way and gotten too wrapped up in the details such that it’s too hard to let go when maybe there are plenty of alternative life styles just waiting for us …?
@maegul @QueerMatters
I read this an hour or so ago while wrestling with a system upgrade and been pondering it since. I think I agree with you. When I started out with computers (a very long time ago) the boxes were seen as magic by many and programming was an art not a science. After ten years I dropped out of mainstream computer business as it had changed so much (went and worked in theatre/radio/tv for a while) but returned in the mid-90s as the internet was taking off. It had become 'interesting' again. Now AI is ruining everything and it's all dumbing down again. I've returned to reading books (physical never digital) again instead of watching crap tv, for instance. Yes, nothing stays the same for ever but, sometimes, it goes in the wrong direction. Or so it feels.
Hmmn ...
The level of pure, vitriolic hatered I have for this technology is unreal.
The costs are immense:
- Ecologically, it's poisoning our air and ruining our limited water supplies.
- Societally, we're being conditioned OUT of creating and the artistic process
- Economically it's proliferating inequality at epic scales, people are losing their jobs en masse
- Practically, the results aren't even good. Software feels worse now b/c companies are shitting out changes that outstrip their human capacity