[max_on_hn]

I am incredibly eager to see what affordable coding agents can do for open source :) in fact, I should really be giving away CheepCode[0] credits to open source projects. Pending any sort of formal structure, if you see this comment and want free coding agent runs, email me and I’ll set you up!

[0] My headless coding agents product, similar to “assign to copilot” but works from your task board (Linear, Jira, etc) on multiple tasks in parallel. So far simple/routine features are already quite successful. In general the better the tests, the better the resulting code (and yes, it can and does write its own tests).

[troupo]

> I am incredibly eager to see what affordable coding agents can do for open source :)

Oh, we know exactly what they will do: they will drive devs insane: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my...

[losvedir]

I dunno, looking through those issues I'd be more annoyed by all the randos grandstanding in my PRs.

[troupo]

And not all the "fix this - i fixed - no you didn't - here's the fix — there's no fix" back and forth with the AI?

There's very little grandstanding in the comments. They are all very tame, all things considered.

[dr_dshiv]

Especially since the EU just made open source contributors liable for cybersecurity (Cyber Resilience Act). Just let AI contribute and ur good

[hn111]

Didn’t they make an exception for open-source projects? https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...

[dr_dshiv]

“Anyone opensourcing anything while in the course of ‘commercial activity’ will be fully liable. Effectively they rugpulled the Apache2 / MIT licenses... all opensource released by small businesses is fucked. where the was no red tape now there is infinite liability”

This is my current understanding, from a friend not a lawyer. Would appreciate any insight from folks here.

[spiderfarmer]

So you’re willfully spreading FUD in hopes someone will enlighten you?

[dr_dshiv]

The law is real. What emotions would you suggest are appropriate?

[spiderfarmer]

Open Source is exempt, provided you don’t make a profit: https://kevinboone.me/open_source_liability.html

[andrepd]

Yeah, just the usual hn FUD about the EU.

[throwaway894345]

Can you reconcile that with this sibling comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074070

I don’t have an opinion, just trying to make sense of contradictory claims.