Protestware for Coding Agents

sdevonoes

Would love to see this more widespread.

woah

does it even work?

bloody-crow

I can understand having some moral opposition to using gen-AI or accepting AI contributions to your projects. I personally disagree with this, but it's a defensible position at least. Trying to harm your users for using gen-AI seems like the worst type of overeager activism that does more to destroy your reputation and trust than achieving anything tangible. I would advise against hiring the author of this change in any kind of hypothetical scenario where I get a vote based on this behavior alone.

dijksterhuis

good on them, taking a stand having weighed up the issue for themselves. remember that we are not entitled to the changes we want in FOSS projects that we do not maintain ourselves. same principle applies in this case as far as i’m concerned. i’ve got a library i’ve been tempted to try this sort of thing with. adding anti-ai instruction header comments into every source file (not planning any deletion instructions). the hope is clankers could read docs, but no source code. source code is reserved for humans willing to spend time to understand the code.

yomismoaqui

I know Github stars are not the best way to measure the importance of a project, but 675 seems a little too low for what seems like the main property testing library on Java. Maybe it's because property testing is not that popular?

asy_rah

It is fun to see the corporate bootlickers getting worked up about ASCII comments (!) that might hurt their dream $1 trillion company, which will make them unemployed and does not care about them. I always wondered why some people defended IG Farben in 1943. Not any more.