Do that and the AI might fork the repo, address all the outstanding issues and split your users. The code quality may not be there now, but it will be soon.

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sethops1 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is a fantasy that virtually never comes to fruition. The vast majority of forks are dead within weeks when the forkers realize how much effort goes into building and maintaining the project, on top of starting with zero users.

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dormento an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This might be true today, but think about it. This is a new scenario, where a giga-brain-sized <insert_role_here> works tirelessly 24/7 improving code. Imagine it starts to fork repos. Imagine it can eventually outpace human contributors, not only on volume (which it already can), but in attention to detail and usefulness of resulting code. Now imagine the forks overtake the original projects. This is not just "Will Smith eating spaghetti", its a real breaking point.

I'm equal parts frightened and amazed.

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thephyber 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While true, there are projects which surmount these hurdles because the people involved realize how important the project is. Given projects which are important enough, the bots will organize and coordinate. This is how that Anthropic developer got several agents to work in parallel to write a C compiler using Rust, granted he created the coordination framework.

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newswasboring 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the difference now (in case code quality is solved with LLMs) is the cost of effort is now approaching zero.

	▲	PurpleRamen 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Good enough AI is not cheap (yet). So at the moment it's more a scenario for people who are rich enough. Though, small projects with little maintenance-burden might be at a risk here. But thinking about, this might be a new danger to get us into another xz-utils-situation. The big malicious actors have enough money to waste and can scale up the amount of projects they attack and hijack, or even build themselves.

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bayindirh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The code quality may not be there now, but it will be soon.

I'm hearing this exact argument since 2002 or so. Even Duke Nukem Forever has been released in this time frame.

I bet even Tesla might solve Autopilot(TM) problems before this becomes a plausible reality.

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acedTrex an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I am perfectly willing to take that risk. Hell i'll even throw ten bucks on it while we are here.