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First commit of six commits was 4 hours ago.

I'm curious: in the age of AI, where you can literally tell your clankers to work on something, why do you even care about the longevity of open source projects? There are several projects that are abandoned, and I have resurrected them for my own use cases without any issues.

By the same reasoning, why should I care about the output of someone else’s clanker if I can just get it from my own clanker?

But to answer your question, I do still care about software being maintained by someone who can make design decisions instead of just yielding control to bots who tend to produce mediocre designs.

These are all good questions.

Perhaps we can think of projects like these the same way we’d think of a good tweet - not valuable in itself but valuable because of the ideas or conversations it generates.

Maybe because they know more about the domain than you do, and it will take you a lot more back-and-forth with your clanker than it would for them with their clanker.

And maybe they don't, and that's the problem with one-day-old projects: we know for sure that the programmer didn't have time to learn anything from that particular project and we now have to trust them that they know what they are doing. Unfortunately this is wrong in 90+% of the time, so that's kind of a gamble to expect one particular project to tick this box.

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