[dada78641]

It has also really accelerated the army of hustlers who can't actually code but want to get a contributor badge on major repos to put on their resume.

It's not like this sort of hustling didn't exist prior to LLMs but the volume has ballooned massively.

[mrguyorama]

Any system of cheaply generating mediocre quality inherently benefits spammers and grifters more than anyone else.

Their biggest limiting factor is always the cost of generating mediocre content. Removing that barrier was the dumbest thing to do in the world.