AI is destroying trust in open source and many other areas and I think this will discourage teams from publishing their source code in the future.
On the other hand, personal connections are becoming even more important, which is unfair to the younger generation and people who don't live near tech hubs.
And it is true, but that just means the bar for expectations has been raised thanks to early open source success. Tarball drops don't cut it anymore (unless you're Alphabet, Inc.) and you actually have to foster a community around what you release in order to attract bug reports and contributions. And you need a code of conduct, and a code of conduct enforcement committee, and a steering committee or board of directors, and...
You just scratch your own itch and you're done. There is no need to "attract contribution", usually, as usually, your project will do exactly what you need.
where is sqlite's GitHub? It doesn't have one because it drops tarballs.
I didn't agree with your comment when I glanced through it, but then further ahead in the discussion I stumbled upon a whole thread of people commenting that PRs generated by AI coding assistants are strealing merit, and even posters talking about the need to tell apart AI PRs from AI-free PRs with proof of work schemes just to feed the merit angle.
Crazy times we live in.