Ask HN: Do you distrust OSS projects with Claude commits?

4 points·rathboma··4 comments

Does any amount of AI contribution to a project turn you off?

What's the limit?

More like disappointment really, kind of the same feeling when your buddy is bitten and now you have to shoot them before they eat you

yes, any amount turns me away. I only trust the slop I generate because I know it's been reviewed.

Even established projects that seem to be using it responsibly?

My biggest fear I have software wise right now is that these agents we all run freely on our computers and servers can effectively become part of a bot net because of a bad prompt (yes it technically takes more than that but not much). Because of this I feel external dependencies are a much bigger supply chain risk than they ever have been.

At this point I feel there are few repos I'm willing to download and run. I will however download, analyze, and build my own version. Yes there are plenty of exceptions still, but more and more I find I just build it myself.

I'm probably a weird outlier but I find I'm regularly imagining the day that my project has 0 external dependencies. While I don't imagine it'll be soon, I also see the possibility of a day that I've even created my own db.

(edit added below) Basically anytime I see a project was built with AI it's a major flag that I should consider building my own alternative.

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