• Ctrl Zee@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 hour ago

    It’s an unfortunate news, burnout in open source was real even before AI. Now it has just exploded.

    Reviewing code has always been a bottleneck. AI made sending a patch nearly free, but reviewing one costs the same as ever, and it lands on a few volunteers.

    For code that millions run, someone has to understand every line, so the sender should do that work, not the maintainer. Otherwise you’re just moving the cost onto the people who can least afford it.

    There should be a simple rule: if you can’t explain your patch line by line, don’t send it. And maintainers should feel free to reject any patch by default when the sender can’t explain it.

    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
      8·
      56 minutes ago

      I’m a programmer. I vibecode a bunch of prototypes and personal projects. I couldn’t imagine being inconsiderate or stupid enough to submit pure hallucinated code to any project, let alone a kernel project. And to have an agent open the PR for me, with code I haven’t read or don’t understand? absolutely insane

      • Ctrl Zee@lemmy.world
        4·
        34 minutes ago

        Same here. Vibecoding my own tools is fine, because I’m the one who pays for the bugs. A kernel patch is different: thousands of people pay for them, so understanding every line is the minimum.

        Anyone who sends code to public software should follow a simple code of ethics. A low barrier to entry is great, it’s how most of us started. But the bar for responsibility should rise with how many people run your code, and right now it doesn’t.

      • the_q@piefed.socialEnglish
        13·
        52 minutes ago

        You shouldn’t be vibecoding at all, bud. Toe dippers such as yourself help move to normalize this crap.

        • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
          2·
          27 minutes ago

          Nah. I’m not anti-AI categorically, just the grift, marketing, and billionaires around it. I’ve built and maintained production deployments that incorporate CNNs; I’ve been using AI (ML) since long before the attention paper and modern AI branding.

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    1 hour ago

    Of course the AI wave has been horrible, and is getting significantly worse. At first it was once in a while that I’d see slop … Nowadays it’s pretty much half of what I see, if not more.

    Who could have predicted this? And no answer from Linus.