• one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    18 minutes ago

    Of course the AI wave has been horrible, and is getting significantly worse. At first it was once in a while that I’d see slop … Nowadays it’s pretty much half of what I see, if not more.

    Who could have predicted this? And no answer from Linus.

  • Ctrl Zee@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 minutes ago

    It’s an unfortunate news, burnout in open source was real even before AI. Now it has just exploded.

    Reviewing code has always been a bottleneck. AI made sending a patch nearly free, but reviewing one costs the same as ever, and it lands on a few volunteers.

    For code that millions run, someone has to understand every line, so the sender should do that work, not the maintainer. Otherwise you’re just moving the cost onto the people who can least afford it.

    There should be a simple rule: if you can’t explain your patch line by line, don’t send it. And maintainers should feel free to reject any patch by default when the sender can’t explain it.