AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers

supernes

TLDR: Greg Kroah-Hartman says that last month something magical happened and AI output is no longer "slop".

ozlikethewizard

How many year's end have to pass?

MithrilTuxedo

I'm thinking of Debian and how much effort it takes to maintain stability and security over time. I can't imagine we'll really be able to trust AI without it's use in open source software where we can see how reliable it is.

fsflover

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547849 AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar (theregister.com) 58 points by amarant 4 days ago

beastman82

gotta love a site that hijacks your back button and makes you hit it 3 times.

Hamuko

When people suggest to use AI for open-source projects, what exactly are they advocating for given that the median open-source project budget is pretty much $0/month? Maybe $1/month if the maintainer likes to have a website for the project.

ChrisArchitect

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547849

pbiggar

> What happened? Kroah-Hartman shrugged: "We don't know. Nobody seems to know why. Either a lot more tools got a lot better, or people started going ..." Odd sentiment. It's pretty clear the tools crossed a threshold last year (in April as I recall) where they became good enough to actually write entire applications, and just accelerated from there. Today they're amazing and no-one I know is writing artisanal code anymore (at least, not at work).

s_ting765

Coding agents are like asking a genie for code. They will give you the code you ask for alright but you never know what kind of curse has been crontabbed for you.