Just seeing the list here: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
I don’t know what to think about it, many incredible open-source projects went downhill, some worse than others, full AI permission usage and some of them even advertise AI providers on README.md. I’m even using many of them myself.
Even the good guys are falling, I’m not sure what to think about it. Am I overreacting maybe?
You might think, that’s fine, not a big deal, some of them just allow AI usage, but not AI generated code, but for how long? If you allow use of AI for anything the tendency is that you’ll be even more open about it in the future.
List of projects that personally draw my attention or I use eventually:
- Firefox: not unexpected, but still, I had hope on Mozilla bring more tech awareness on mainstream
- Spaceship prompt: I use this on my terminal for customization, why’d you need AI for such a simple project?
- VLC: just sad
- curl: sad x 10
- Vim: sad x 20
- zoxide: they literally promoting AI providers in the README, such a simple tool as well, why?
- CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd: the few ones providing a good alternative to Google Maps
- Element: that’s literally the most used client for Matrix I guess?
- Python: I thought they were the good guys as well
- Lemmy: unexpected, code of conduct says it’s allowed
- Linux: the final boss, unbelievable
Is there any hope at all? Or am I just overreacting?
On one hand, I think this kind of listing leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as it can be used for initiating harassment campaigns, etc., sometimes with no true alternatives. Especially for languages, which would require a manual rewrite to the new language, or hunting for a non-compromized fork (D at least has OpenD, which to my knowledge lacks the failed attempts at AI integrations, but also dropped stuff like
@nogclabeling which makes it harder to mix garbage collected and non-garbage collected threads).On the other hand, it can be useful, although I’m more concerned about outright vibe coded bullshit than a few “co-authored” code phrases.
I think it’s great to highlight the true ones who are refusing AI usage so we can focus on them.
I was never interested in Clojure but now knowing they refuse AI, I kind of have interest on learning it now.