Humanity in Open Source

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward

Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control for most countries and companies to rely upon. 

How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era | We Love Open Source • All Things Open

A new Carnegie Mellon study shows AI coding tools boost velocity by 281% — then leave codebases harder to work with. Here's what open source communities need to do before the sugar rush wears off.

What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog

The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:

AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source

How Open Source communities can adapt to AI-generated contributions without overwhelming Open Source maintainers

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…

The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0

version 1.0 See FAQsSee list of endorsementsSee ChecklistEndorse the OSAID Preamble Why we need Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open Source has demonstrated that massive benefits accrue to…

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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.

From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative...

AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with...

Open source was not ready for AI-speed contributions

AI did not create the maintainer burden problem in open source. It accelerated it. Contributors are being amplified, but maintainers are still the verification bottleneck.

Open source was not ready for AI-speed contributions

AI did not create the maintainer burden problem in open source. It accelerated it. Contributors are being amplified, but maintainers are still the verification bottleneck.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...

Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...