I think this article Agentic coding impact on oss is related. In this case the author is outright saying “don’t submit PRs”, but in many other cases authors are not catching up with PRs so people just fork.
All in all, I think the impact of LLMs in open source will likely be significant over time.
I think we’ll also see more of a differentiation between things grounded in open source ideology, like the FSF, and more corporate open source. I can’t blame coders for any ideological impurity because I don’t imagine that “buy me a coffee” button exactly fills up their bank vault with gold coins. That said, I appreciate the free software heroes who visualize what the world should be and work towards that. Maybe in the coming decade, we’ll see FOSS hardware make some leaps and bounds. I choose to remain optimistic, but the software world is threatening to catastrophically implode at the moment and it’s a bit hard to think positive.
I think this article Agentic coding impact on oss is related. In this case the author is outright saying “don’t submit PRs”, but in many other cases authors are not catching up with PRs so people just fork.
All in all, I think the impact of LLMs in open source will likely be significant over time.
I think we’ll also see more of a differentiation between things grounded in open source ideology, like the FSF, and more corporate open source. I can’t blame coders for any ideological impurity because I don’t imagine that “buy me a coffee” button exactly fills up their bank vault with gold coins. That said, I appreciate the free software heroes who visualize what the world should be and work towards that. Maybe in the coming decade, we’ll see FOSS hardware make some leaps and bounds. I choose to remain optimistic, but the software world is threatening to catastrophically implode at the moment and it’s a bit hard to think positive.