The long story short, if your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome on r/opensource . AI, as it exists today, is…
Perspective: AI demand is inflated, and only Anthropic is being realistic
The main usage metric for artificial intelligence, called tokens, looks explosive on paper, but it may be significantly overstated.
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
Using AI in open source
If you want to use AI to help you contribute to one of the projects I maintain, I would be delighted. But I have rules.
tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
Why Things Like TypeSafe AI Don't Interest Me
A handful of people showed up in the comments asking 'have you tried TypeSafe?'. I use that as a hook to lay out my rule about new AI tools, actually investigate the case, and explain why I don't waste time optimizing token spend.
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…
Why AI is now important on Open Source - Scan's leaflet
If you can't fight them, join them
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
Nobody Wants to Pay for Your AI
AI is everywhere today. It writes social posts, suggests email replies, recommends your next binge-watch, and quietly powers tools you use without even noticing.
Really, you made this without AI? Prove it
The quest to find the ‘Fair Trade’ logo for human-made content.
AI Contribution Policies
Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.
"AI makes it cheaper to contribute to Open Source, but it's not making life easier for maintainers. More contributions are flowing in, but the burden of evaluating them still falls on the same small group of people. That asymmetric pressure risks breaking maintainers." also relevant to slop science
