@Johann150 just how refenrendums work.

If the sentiment change they can always have another one

@snow obvs. you don't but zig (the programming language?) seems like a whole other thing to a program/kernel/os?

Surely it requires way less maintance than bigger project for sure. So I dunno if its an accurate comparison..

@snow

You do you and good luck on keeping that stance tbh. Waiting for your fork of linux then. /j (I know you can have a stance while not going to the other extreme)

I do generally see more and more projects that used AI in some capacity. Dunno if they would exist without AI or not. Maybe not as fast.

Someone is working on postmarket for FP6 making it better that is. Which has me obvs. conflicted. Like I am with you that AI is REALLY bad.

Like the question is would we have better postmarket on FP6 without it? Sure. But how long would that take?

Dunno how I stand on it atm for coding especially in an open source stuff. Or some other cool stuff like reverse engeneering stuff (not emulator related) I have a mod for a game that adds a nice mode to the game making more streamlined. AI was used for reverse-engeneering the game for hooking into it.

For art and creative stuff. Yeah fuck AI. Fuck this thing making everything worse. People losing their livelihoods and stuff.

Though open source is mostly volunteer work. So having more better code for more devices is better? I dunno.

The question gets more and more complicated tbh.

@snow I am aware. It just is a question on what you wanna spend your time with. The clanker commits will come anyway.

Do you wanna waste time looking through PRs seeing if they are clankers first? And then ban anyone even touching it?

Also the time you will spend arguing with people.

Good luck with that on such a big project. You might run out of people very quick. Not very great for a project.

You may be able to keep out AI in smaller project where you know anyone. But for stuff like the kernel and bigger distros?

Maybe but the resources required might make it not worth it in the end.

We will see how the watermarking turns out tbh.

Also there is merit of AI to consider as well it is very good at certain stuff. So atleast make use of that?

Surely you wont like this answer. But fairly certain for coding we have very much lost the war already. Its one of the things AI is fairly good at. And seeing that a good dev can do with it is interesting.

@snow Be genuine snow what other option would make sense for them... Not like you can prevent AI code making it into the codebase anyway.