The "problem" with FOSS projects is that they're getting submissions from people who have no idea what they're doing, not that AI per se is an issue. Like the other poster, all of the actual professionals at my F100 have been doing 100% AI coding for most of the year. Having the actual coding part automated means it's easier to improve architecture, reliability, performance, testing, etc. All the things that you always want to do but previously couldn't justify spending the time on are now doable.

I work for a fortune 500, and go to lunch with friends at AWS and google. I have not met a single person that has hand written code in the last year.

I am in a bubble yes, but a bubble further down the path you are headed down. I am sorry to say it, but coding by hand is over.

Listen, I joined this profession because I loved writing code and I was good at it. My job is less interesting now, I no longer get to solve puzzles. I am not an advocate, just a realist. Hand writing code is dead.

EDIT: Its obviously not dead yet, but the path is clear, and the progress is further than people think. If you use chrome, you use vide code, if you use windows you use vibe code. If you have touched a single part of any large software companies products, I guarantee 30+% of what was merged in the last year was written with 100% pure AI and no IDE open at all.

Nah man I hate what AI has done to my job. But I think people outside of major tech don't realize how far down the path we are.

I remember I was on a call with a client about a new product we put out which hosts modules of their code on our system, and we were talking about AI and they were asking how they should separate their AI made prototypes with their hand made production items, because obviously stuff that makes it to production obviously has to be remade by humans.

There was a long silence, then someone on my team said no developer had ever once opened a IDE on the entire production product we had built and they where using. Development began 2 years ago and by that time not one developer out of 2,000 at my company was using IDEs.

I am not saying you need to be "OK" with the use of AI to make games. I am saying your "OK" doesn't matter, it will happen. If you fight the lost cause you can delay it, but then you will have no control over how the world looks once the fight is over. Don't get caught up in the fight to prevent it, look for a future compromise you are happy with and work on shaping that future.

This isn't the first time something like this happened, and we can see the results of hoping for it to go away. The invention of the car was full of people who wanted to ban cars, and eventually they lost and we now have tons of car dependent hell holes... What all of those people should have focused on was making sure the laws/regulations/patterns/thoughts around cars were healthy and balanced so that the car future would be healthy and balanced. Instead, they where all or nothing, and once they lost, they no longer had any say in what happened and cars broke through to very little resistance beyond no/yes.

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