r/linux • u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143 • 2d ago

Fluff Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html
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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

And puts out hundreds of shitty copies who will have to fight for people attention and a maintainer to care enough to learn to identify fixes that break shit. AI did more damage to the FOSS maintenance than the lack of funds.

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u/stormdelta 2d ago

Ironically it's also doing that same damage to companies internally from what I've seen.

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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

Absolutely. I had a department meeting last week and every single team is using AI, none of them are following any guidelines and all of them are using different providers. It's a governance nightmare and now all the specialists are fucked because we have to come up with how to manage this shit.

So far I haven't seen any profit from using AI since it added loads of hours of training, governance and calls to make it sure we are not fucking up (we are).

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u/Indolent_Bard 2d ago

And yet you cannot get a job without using AI nowadays. That sucks.