Joey Hess is unimpressed. See https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/
> What LLMs in Debian development will do, I fear, is eliminate any incentive to scrap boilerplate or reform policies that require a lot of other senseless human effort. If I had had access to LLMs 30 years ago, I might have just had them generate the rules files, replate with complexity. So they will make Debian even more firmly what it is, and ever less likely to explore what it could become.
I use and like LLMs, but it does feel like structural social changes are harder to do. For example, creation of new protocols. I hope I'm wrong, and LLMs are used to build collaborative, community projects - not just everyone vibe coding their own incompatible software.
If it had happened early enough, code copyright might never have even been possible and no one can deny you your machine because you can just vibe up stuff.
In Debian, often the barrier to change is one or two people actively disagreeing with a change who are in a position to block it through their own action or inaction, so just being able to do more work on the change yourself is not necessarily going to make it easier to change things.
And thus this will all bias towards complexity and fragility..
Aside from Bun, which is owned by Anthropic, do we know of open source projects that allow AI where this has happened?
he also seems to have absolutely no idea what he is talking about