Post #2673528
2026-03-05 10:37 UTC
@codingjoe@fosstodon.org personally, I'd much rather help someone improve *their own* code.
Like, I'd rather have my child draw something awful with a pen than use a printer to print a drawing from the internet.
I think you should state your rules/preferences in the README so you have something to refer to. Or maybe write your thoughts in a blog post like @davidism@mas.to did: https://davidism.com/school-assignment-open-source/
A bit too AI-positive for my taste.. but Simon Willison published this yesterday: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/
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@codingjoe@fosstodon.org 2026-03-05 13:19
@davidism@mas.to interesting. Doing some open source for uni or your resume is something that I am seeing more too. Especially from India, which at least in part is probably attributed to population size, but in other part because AI has killed software offshoring. I usually respond kindly to those requests when I can see some effort and people are responsive. Reviewing your own code should be the absolute minimum. But how do you say this without sounding like a Finnish kernel dev?