It definitely feels less fun. Harder to get attribution, build a reputation, a community… Common driving forces for people to contribute to open source.

This is honestly why I have stopped contributing to open source.

I was fine with my work being a gift for all of humanity equally, but I did not consent with it being a gift to a for-profit company that I'm not personally benefiting from, that wont even follow the spirit of the open source license.

If AI doesn't have to follow the GPL, then I'm not going to create GPL code.

some startups are already avoiding the open source route, exactly because of that. You publish your code, then 2 weeks later, we have dozen of "$PROJ in $LANG rewritten". 30000 LOC + super verbose README.md done in one week, in less than 10 commits, from somebody that never wrote a single line of OSS.

Me. I've never been a maintainer for any big opensource project, so it won't make a dent on anything, but now my contributions are exactly zero.

Couldn't care less, honestly. That being said, I don't use any LLM for coding and it'll be a long time before I do.

What is even the point in open sourcing code now unless it is being done specifically for the government or for a public standard? You don't get attribution, you don't get bugfixes, your human product used as a training set to make billionaires richer and permit a proliferation of LLM generated copies with README's filled with emojis and fake soundbites.

The Claude Fans here should not be overly surprised if the number of human-coded OSS projects falls off a cliff in the next couple of years. AI Companies might need to actually being paying humans for writing code to prevent model collapse.