Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use and/or support LLMs/AI, as well as tips for requesting better policies or forking.
Good to see the state of things, but it’s bloody depressing how pervasive this has become (unless the maintainers have really really reviewed all submissions to ensure they are a) understood fully and b) high-quality. But given the flood of PRs many projects get now I can’t help but think they’ll be overwhelmed and slop will just slip right through.
Interesting list to monitor if LLM-free projects start lagging behind their LLM-assisted peers over time.
Pandora’s box has been opened and we won’t be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
I honestly don’t understand why, on posts of people trying to avoid AI and LLMs, people often post something to the effect of “get on board or get left behind,” “it’s inevitable, we can’t resist.”
Most charitably, for your comment specifically, it’s just what your brain went to after wondering your first paragraph. This is, after all, an open discussion forum and on-topic musings are normal, even if they dissent from the view being presented in the OP. Or you’re trying to save us all time and effort spent on what you genuinely to believe a pointless resistance.
Least charitably? We already have the powers that be, billions of dollars, and bosses already telling us that narrative and it feels very bad to have it repeated, to just give in, in a space we’re trying to use to escape it at least for another day, by “one of us” (a programming.dev user) too. And because you have an opinion different than me, because every frustrated search I make on “why are people trying to push AI” or similar topics returns floods of articles not about my search but on instead how to get anti-LLM people to change their minds and use it, because people want to make decisions by their own power instead of feeling manipulated into it by others and me knowing so many people want to change my mind on this? I really don’t like your comment and genuinely wonder why you posted it—can’t help but be suspicious. But hey. At least I didn’t downvote because I really don’t like what you said!
Above paragraph probably looks like a very passive-aggressive way to accuse you of bothood or astroturfing. Don’t mean it that way, but I also know I’m a bit overly credulous and trusting.
What about the Linux kernel?
It’s a hell of a lot more secure than it was last year, thanks to AI.
TempleOS.
