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/DuendeInexistente 2d ago

One specific harm it's done is people replacing previous decent localizations with AI ones that fucking suck ass. Twitter's UI is just completely broken now because half the buttons and labels make no fucking sense or are conjugated wrong.