| > So you are saying that the quality of the projects is going down? The website seems to at the least be semi-generated via AI. But I think
the statement that the quality of many projects went downwards, is true. I am not saying all projects became worse, per se, but if you, say,
search for some project these days, often you land on a github page
only. Or primarily. How is the documentation there? Usually there is
README.md and some projects have useful documentation. But in most cases
that I found, open source projects really have incredibly poor documentation
for the most part. Documentation is not code, so the code could be great,
but I am increasingly noticing that even if the code gets better, the
documentation just gets worse; rarely updated, if at all. Even when you
file requests for specific improvements, often there is no response or
change, probably because the author just lacks time to do so, anyway. But I am also seeing that the code also gets worse. AI generated slop is
often unreadable and unmaintainable. I have even recently seen AI spam
slop used on mailing lists - look here: https://lists.ffmpeg.org/archives/list/ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.o... Michael Niedermayer does not seem to understand why AI slop is a problem.
One comment reveals that. I don't read mailing lists myself really (never
was able to keep up with traffic) but I would be pissed to no ends if
AI spam like that would land into my mailbox and waste my time. Yet the
people who use AI spam, don't seem to understand mentally why that is a
problem. This is interesting. They suddenly think spam is ok if AI
generated it. So the overall trend is that quality goes down more and more.
Not in all projects but in many of them. |