11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People

bigyabai

23/23 were included in model training data though, so maybe the bus factor is a wash after all.

luqtas

BREAKING NEWS: https://www.fordfoundation.org/learning/library/research-rep...

calvinmorrison

OK so we only need to employ 22 people as a WORLD to have these guys full time employed? when can we start enshittifying it?

vatsachak

Wait it's not AI agents waat

jszymborski

> "xz: The Backdoor That Put One Maintainer in the Spotlight" Do people who publish this stuff read this and think "this LLMism sounds good to me"?

throw0101a

Obligatory (and referenced in the article): * https://xkcd.com/2347/

KazaNLP

TIL! sudo was the surprise on the list for me

roenxi

Reflecting the enormous effectiveness of free markets in the software space. If there was a strong regulatory system around software development it might cost orders of magnitude more to run a modern OS.

rrr_oh_man

Isn't that a rip off of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002494 ?

compass_copium

…and the second person in how many of the two-person projects is Jia Tan?

jdw64

The problem with open source like this is that it’s too difficult to work on, and if you start studying just to be able to work on it, it’s hard to get noticed. Most core open-source projects start with optimization and are extremely difficult. But would people with that level of skill really dislike being noticed?

remywang

> Eight projects, including … SQLite … show no grant or sponsorship in any public funding source the analysis checked SQLite has a list of sponsors right on the homepage https://www.sqlite.org/

tamimio

What scares me is the new generation are mostly tech illiterate just like boomers, only millennials and some gen x are lifting the tech world, now add AI to the mix and how it’s making newer gen are even dumber, the future is bleak.

ChrisArchitect

Related source: The people holding up the internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002494

duhhhhh1212

https://www.pangram.com/history/66de9897-c6ef-4dc3-8e89-0e24... Don't waste your time.

erelong

"Now, with added AI assistance..."

murodbeck

isn't it taken from https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet ?

penskymaterial

You saw it here first hand today, with half the forum losing their minds because they built their tower of slop atop a javascript interpreter which will be sunset in a year. And that dependency is professionally maintained, with a 12 month off-ramp.