> Harbuz says “GitHub will say ‘oh, we realise [AI] agents have been such a problem, we’re gonna maybe do something to fix it’ and it’s like, it’s you, right? You, GitHub, did this”. GitHub did not respond to a request for comment.
I said it 🤷
Open source software powers the modern world. But the volunteers who build and maintain it are burning out; a flood of AI "garbage" is making their job unsustainable.
www.newscientist.com/article/2527...
Vlad-Stefan Harbuz
The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing AI-written submissions are causing some to burn out and quit
