I don't get it.
(I'm not trying to throw shades at the author. I know they have no obligation to maintain an open source project. I'm simply having a hard time gasping what's happening.)
(I'm not trying to throw shades at the author. I know they have no obligation to maintain an open source project. I'm simply having a hard time gasping what's happening.)
I don't get it either, because that has always been the case, thus most of his post is borderline non sense.
Imo, what happened is that he took the opportunity of him entering academia to vent some stuff and quit maintaining his project.
He explained the reasons he went into the academia, which is because of the AI, and AI is not the reason he stopped with development.
Yes, making software development cheaper has been the main priority of the industry for a long time. The new development is that there's now a magic "do what I want" button that obviously won't quite do what you want but it's so cheap (for corporations, not humanity...) that you might as well pretend it does. (Compared to paying professionals who might even care about doing a good job, that is.)
What's funny, is some will say, "use the app" instead for things like this... why should I trust someone to build a safe/secure app, who cannot build a reasonably functional website?
If your argument is still that you don't want to trust a company that can't make both functional, well... maybe you shouldn't be going to Jack-In-The-Box in the first place.
I don't actually install that many apps, and generally not retail apps anyway.
- The author enjoyed writing quality open source code
- The author needs to make strategic decisions for his own career and livelihood and he doesn't have enough bandwidth for both
I don't feel he is happy about the decision he needs to make and he is pointing to something dark happening to software development and open source.
Now this is not new, and didn't start with LLM. I am sure if we ask the OpenBSD devs what they think about the modern mainstream open source ecosystem, docker, full stack development, etc. they see it like we might look at LLM generated code. This is just a question how much of a purist you are.
Could this mean that he has been approached by some "men in black" asking to insert some backdoor in the code or to stop working on it, together with a gag order ? (actually I also wondered the same a long time ago with Truecrypt, even though to my knowledge no backdoor has ever been found in further audits...)