Maintaining open-source at the age of AI
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“Open-source is dead”, according to X/Twitter. After all, why would we need to install tons of dependencies (with vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks ramping up), when our AI agents can re-implement everything for us?
To be fair, rumours of its death have been strongly exaggerated: the world still needs open-source more than ever. But the role of OSS maintainers is changing. From floods of AI slop PRs to newfound superpowers with fine-tuned agentic workflows to help with triage and maintenance, what does the job of maintainers look like at the age of AI?
