Despite the petition being local to Germany, we believe that strengthening the position of open source contributors there will be beneficial to the open source community as a whole.
Today it's Germany, tomorrow other countries might follow. We are all part of the open source community - every little step forward helps!
“Of course, the problem with this form of social media circulation is that all of the details about the study got stripped away,” Williamson said. “All that was left were the major claims, which certain social media users helped boost and propel. All this helped the paper get a huge amount of attention, even though the findings really were not supported by the underlying research at all.”
Williamson has not been alone in such concerns. When the paper was first published, Ilkka Tuomi, chief scientist of the research institute Meaning Processing Ltd., posted on LinkedIn about the pitfalls of such meta-analysis studies attempting to “draw conclusions about incompatible and ill-defined outcomes” from experimental results involving very different populations. “The only reason to do these studies seems to be that statistics and meta-analysis tools can crunch out numbers that look [like] science,” Tuomi wrote.
I don't want to "attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," but this seems like exactly the kind of thing everyone involved in publishing this should have been aware of.
Turn off the issues tracker and the pull requests or deploy a bare git server for releasing your code. Find a small group of people you really know and trust and work with them on projects, or do it completely alone.
You don't need to allow strangers to invade your space. You don't need a performative Code of Conduct or an LLM policy. Open source doesn't need to be developed openly for it to be "open source".
Write code. Make things you like. Use any tools you want. Do code drops at 2am on Christmas day. Whatever you do, don't get tricked into running an operation that's half tech incubator and half daycare for people whose parents gave them a keyboard and no social skills.
I like this "my workshop has glass walls, but I'm wearing headphones and the doors are locked" model of open source.
I'll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I'm also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).
For the people, like me, who were wondering where they were going next.
Full shutdowns are rarer (only Cal.com and Jazzband spring to mind), because maintainers are trying to stay open and fight the avalanche of slop with AI contribution policies.
Looking at all of the above, why do you think people shouldn't be skeptical when the number of PRs suddenly spikes?
The market isn't perfect at matching needs and abilities. We famously have a shortage of COBOL programmers, which is crazy given how much of our infrastructure still depends on it. A Nobel prize winner predicted that radiogists would be obsolete eight years ago, and we've been suffering a shortage ever since because people believed him and stopped studying it.
The most interesting argument I've heard is that vibe coding is to coding, what baby formula was to breastfeeding. When formula was introduced, it took only one generation for us to lose a lot of the generational wisdom and cultural infrastructure surrounding nursing.
We haven't completely forgotten COBOL, or radiology, or breastfeeding, and technically speaking, we won't completely forget coding, either. But we might forget enough that it becomes a huge problem when we need to remember.
I've heard of many projects disabling contributions, shutting down, or pivoting to closed source and naming slop code as a major reason.
If the contributions are quality, that's great, but I don't think skepticism is an inappropriate reaction to a sudden surge in contributions in this year of all years.
MinIO's official stance is to redirect people towards their proprietary AIStor solution, but that's a hard pass for anyone who prefers to stay open source. You don't need to go down that path.
Farm security is national security. Through this partnership, Palantir is empowering USDA with core capabilities that will enable it to secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience, and shield agricultural programs from fraud, abuse, and foreign adversary influence. In doing so, USDA will gain critical visibility into risks that can affect America’s agricultural production and food supply.
I'm curious about what this'll look like in practice.
Because it sounds like the US federal government is about to make total surveillance a prerequisite for subsidies.
In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson's information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.
Microsoft seems to have stripped away mentions of the "Copilot" brand in the Windows Insider version of the Notepad app. The Copilot button in the toolbar is gone, and instead, you'll find a writing icon which will present you AI-powered writing assistance, such as rewrite, summarize, tone modification, format configuration, and more. Additionally, "AI features" in Notepad settings has been renamed to "Advanced features" and it allows users to toggle off AI capabilities within the app.
Sounds good.