haywalk

> succumbing to the slop-monster

So, in your view, banning vibecoded slop contributions is "succumbing to the slopmonster?"

> critical mass of hard to detect bugs accumulate in the project

Their announcement explicitly said LLMs are allowed for bug detection.

I love KOReader! I use it on my Kobo Clara Colour with Calibre. Love Wikipedia lookup, customization options, and the fact that wifi is off by default.

> The worst thing I have to hide is knowledge about my intentions, none of which are bad/illegal/immoral.

Correction: None of which are bad/illegal/immoral _right now_. The "I have nothing to hide" crowd will surely change their tune the moment any of their data starts to be used against them.

> when people are pushing free software on you they are kind of in it for themselves

I strongly disagree with this. The free (as in both freedom and as in free beer) software movement was to provide an alternative to proprietary and closed-source software, which is developed by people and corporations who are openly in it for themselves.

> Like 10-100 bucks per PR to cover the cost of the extra vigilance. Also I could see migrations away from github, to AI free dependency hosting or something like that. Its an interesting challenge. But its not insurmountable.

You could just leave your project where it's at, keep it open source, and simply not accept outside contributions. Lots of open source software operates this way. The Ladybird browser notably switched to this model recently as a reaction to AI pull requests.

I’d disagree with this. As local models and compute improve, I can definitely see something like this becoming doable offline in the next decades. In the meantime, at the very least, I would never use something like this unless I could bring my own API/cloud provider so that my data isn’t being handled by the vendor. Also teleoperation is a huge no go for me.