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The whole point of open source is to get this stuff upstream so that a rich software commons is created.

I'm not sure I want to participate in this space anymore if everyone is just going to have their own isolated forks. I might as well keep my own private version of everything and never deal with maintainers ever again.

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There has always been peoples personal forks and random one man hobby projects on Github. I think the Artcraft project is a good example of what's to come. Gimp would have never accepted thousands of commits to convert it in to a replica of Photoshop, and they shouldn't have to. The people who want to go full speed AI programming can run their own project and don't have to bother the Gimp maintainers.

Is it really out of the question to stop using AI and continue contributing upstream to free software projects? It was just a few years ago this was the norm.

That assumes I'd have reverse engineered the firmwares without AI. The truth is I simply don't have enough free time for this.

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