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Re: AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

#21
OpenClaw Peter is using codex to analyze/de-duplicate PRs, extract good ideas from them and then re-implement them.

> I spun up 50 codex in parallel, let them analyze the PR and generate a JSON report with various signals, comparing with vision, intent (much higher signal than any of the text), risk and various other signals. Then I can ingest all reports into one session and run AI queries/de-dupe/auto-close/merge as needed on it.

Some people bitch, others are real engineers solving novel problems.

https://x.com/steipete/status/2025591780595429385?s=20

Re: AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

#23
Often I see youtube videos that sells an overwhelmingly negative take on AI, like "OpenAI" fails 93% of Jobs or "AI is destroying the world" and other weirdly outlandish titles that is clearly aimed at clickbait.

Watching these content I often get confused because it never seems to highlight the actual real world progress and use that LLMs in particular gets for coding.

Much of what was "vibe coding" is becoming just coding now. This means for open source, we are no longer relying on companies that create "opencore" products that nerf/neglect the public version so they can sell their cloud product. We don't have to worry about a maintainer going AWOL on some Clojure or Elixir library and fret about hiring someone who has "20 years of experience". We don't need to pay for a lot of expensive enterprise SaaS tools that charge six digits when we can simply use LLM to internalize existing packages and even create our own.

Those that have been using coding agents for the past 6 month know how much progress there have been and the sheer pace of it to know that we are about to turn the corner, especially as new forms of computing are in the pipelines that will scale even faster without incurring more energy, moving away from text token gen to something else that humans can't read etc.

While it's important to watch different takes, I think someone who consumes only Youtube and these videos that the algorithm is designed to push is going to be shocked and left behind because by the time these videos are produced, things have already progressed or in state of change. All in all, these videos should be treated like ephemeral commentary that ultimately loses their relevance due to the sheer speed of how things are changing.

Re: AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

#24

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AI changes little here. It was never guaranteed that an author was available to contact regarding a past PR.

Merging a PR from a non-established contributor is often taking on responsibility for the long-term maintenance of their code.

Re: AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

#25

OpenClaw Peter is using codex to analyze/de-duplicate PRs, extract good ideas from them and then re-implement them. > I spun up 50 codex in parallel, let them analyze the PR and generate a JSON report with various signals, comparing with vision, intent (much higher signal than any of the text), risk and various other signals. Then I can ingest all reports into one session and run AI queries/de-dupe/auto-close/merge a…

That's an incredibly dismissive attitude to a real problem.

Re: AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]

#29

I wonder if we'll reach a breaking point with public forges, where they'll simply reject hosting a repo if it isn't from someone with a vetted background or if it detects hallmarks of LLM slop (e.g., many commits over a short period of time or other LLM tells).

GitHub recently added new repository settings to turn off pull requests or limit them to approved contributors. The announcement doesn't mention AI agents, but that's certain relevant.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/187038

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