About enshitification, open source and AI pollution
Anyone else suspect commercial game engine are doing this to attack their FOSS (free open source software) competitor?
Unlike other engines Godot asks nothing of its users. No money, no tie in to their sales platform. It’s literally just good free software anyone is invited to try.
Sad to see it dealing with this. FOSS may be under a kind of intentional AI attack.
Hanlons razor… probably just lots and lots of peaple + stupidity. But it could very well be both…
if the bubble ever collapses maybe AI use will cost too much to harass FOSS projects with it.
There are cheaper services that use Chinese models like Deepseek, but even then I doubt they will become mainstream when the bubble bursts and if the US decides no one will use LLMs anymore because they’re not selling subscriptions for them. I guess only people savvy enough to run local LLMs or get services from elsewhere would keep using them, hopefully with more caution (yeah this is cope)
I’m thinking we are going to have to come up with a way to vet contributors before allowing them to contribute code. This will likely reduce the overall contributions of people given we’re creating a barrier to entry, but so many of these FOSS projects are just straight getting overwhelmed with this shit. Something needs to change.
Can anyone describe the process of code contribution with open-source. It’s it like anyone hands in a code.
generally yeah. the problem is that the barrier to entry used to be higher so fewer people knew how to write code to integrate with the project before coding agents. now anyone who can install Claude Code has a seat at that table
