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by fzaninotto 1199 days ago
Great idea, but you stopped too early. By being a bit bolder, you could have solved the problem of open-source funding.

The idea: Train your bot based on the code reviews of prominent open-source contributors. Next, let the user choose the bot they want a review from (e.g. "Dan Abramov Bot", "Linus Torvalds Bot", etc.). Each time the bot does a code review, the open-source contributor gets paid for that. This also solves the legal problem of the licence of training data.

I explained this idea in a blog post a couple weeks ago: https://marmelab.com/blog/2023/02/27/copilot-code-review.htm...

I would pay for that product, because it's fair and it addresses a real problem: the sustainability of open-source projects.