My only objection is calling it doom. It isn't and calling it that gives this stupid shit used by low-effort people far, far too much credit. It's just slop.

But it does suck, you know? Part of what makes OSS so great is that anyone could contribute. If someone uses a thing, and finds something broken or a way to make it better, they could do that and then push it back up to the project and ideally have it merged so everyone can use it. That's what makes it awesome. The project benefits, the maintainer benefits, the coder benefits, the users benefit.

Now we have to stop that because lazy people can't stop shitting it up with generated PRs and trying to get money for not fucking doing anything.

I mean, I was being a little hyperbolic and spitting back against people who claim that any criticism of AI is "doomerism", but I edited out the part of my comment that made that clear before posting. My bad.

Although I do want to push back mildly. I think this situation is a bit worse than just "it sucks", and if you extrapolate out to a world where every institution that's like open source gets polluted by the same fundamental dynamics, it's not quite doom, but it's quite a bit worse than "it does suck".