Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry
A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …
'For Vinogradov, the result is a familiar situation for open source projects: a lot of work to do, and not enough good engineers to do it. — “AI does not increase the number of active, skilled maintainers,” he remarked. “It empowers the good ones, but all the fundamental probl…