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this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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Yea, I fear for the future of open source. There may be some asymmetries built into LLM tech and its uses that simply undercuts the FOSS system as we know it.
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Basically, yea. As sometimes BS is right enough to find a vulnerability, but rarely good enough to patch it, kinda like finding a small leak compared to metal being welded to cover it.
They don't even have to be intentionally built in. Anything that generates unnecessary work for FOSS volunteers is a win for proprietary software companies.
Even an easy to use and well-built tool that produces good results would result in mailing list and bug report noise simply because people like to contribute. If we set aside those who are just trying to pad their resume with open source contributions and bad actors trying disrupt FOSS projects, we're still left with a lot of well-intentioned, mostly inexperienced devs generating duplicate and/or invalid reports and requests.
Since the current state of AI tools certainly does not produce consistently good results, I don't think organizations that are hostile to FOSS projects actually need to do anything at all for them to be disruptive. Just make their shitty tools accessible and other people will significantly contribute to maintainer burnout without even intending to.