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I mean: who doesn't want to work full time on their passion project? Especially when I'd just been made redundant, I feel most people would do the same.

In my case, I never intended on my open source project becoming popular, it just did and I had to either abandon it or make it my job. I'm not sure where that falls in your judgement.

I suspect this is also the case for PHP though.

And the indoctrination is so strong that even after all I've lived through and seen, my default is still "let's open source this".

And then people complain about "bait and switch " or "pulling the rug" when an OSS project becomes successful and tries to fund itself in some way. "But that should be free" shouts everyone. I'm increasingly coming around to the idea that OSS was the biggest swindle the corporations managed to pull off.

At least they're not using him to learn lyric writing.

1. Whether the thing should be done in the first place

2. If it's the correct solution on a high level

3. Whether it conflicts with or duplicates other parts of the system

4. Whether the comments are actually useful or restating the LLM chat

Also many others but these are the most common IME

Pretty sure this is just AI writing style, and yes it's a huge turnoff.

Not a valid comparison, I feel. I may be hindsight, but rap and electronic music came from vibrant underground scenes and to many critics and music fans of the time was seen as at least interesting and at best ground breaking.

AI music on the other hand comes not from the underground, but from corporations. You'll be hard pushed to find any critics or music connoisseurs singing its praises.

I hope you're trolling.

That is awful, sorry. You need to clean your ears.

I think that you're probably right here - it's the granularity. We'll probably see that improving as things move along and hopefully get something interesting out of it at some point. Quite frankly the alternative is too depressing to think about.

I do wonder why AI music is so lame. Every previous technological advancement in music produced amazing new sounds and styles but AI music seems to just be emulating lowest common denominator pop sludge. Where's the Bruce Haack or Kraftwerk of AI? Surely there's a previously unimaginable sound palette out there that we could be pulling from. Why is it all so BAD?

That is indeed the point I was making.

My issue with AI-generated OSS contributions is:

If an AI improves developer productivity so much, why would maintainers of an OSS project want unknown contributors to sit in between the maintainer and the LLM? They'd be typing these queries into Claude Code themselves. To quote my colleague:

> We do not need a middleman to talk to AI models. We are not bottlenecked by coding.