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by lalith_c 398 days ago
maybe open source projects are prohibiting code generated by AI?
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Where?, name them
The article is actually pretty interesting. The only one mentioned is Curl, and that's because of abuses by uneducated developers using AI with no idea of what they're doing.

I actually think that's the central thesis of the article, especially the last example that discusses the LLVM compiler project getting raked over the coals after not engaging with a non-developer that had used AI to make pull requests, and admitted he had no idea what the code did.

Buried in the middle of the article is a paragraph that I think sums up the main point well.

> More broadly, the very hardest problem in open source is not code, it’s people — how to work with others. Some AI users just don’t understand the level they simply aren’t working at.

The point being that without a good programmer, AI is not very useful.

> with no idea of what they're doing.

And that is the problem. I made some contributions to projects with the help of LLMs, but I had to know what I am doing.

> The point being that without a good programmer, AI is not very useful.

Exactly!