Post by @soller@floss.social

2026-03-12 22:04 UTC

I understand everyone is under pressure, and I wish you all the best. Especially if we disagree on things, I am often wrong. I feel that everything I had hoped to gain from writing FLOSS is slowly but surely eroding. My freedom and joy are being soaked up by intense pressures, both internal to FLOSS and external. Software will get worse before it gets better. Burnout could push maintainers to lower their standards and embrace &quot;AI&quot;. Hardware will continue to complexify. Where does this end?

Replies (8)

@lasombra_br@mas.to 2026-03-12 22:06

@soller@floss.social If you ask AI boomers they’ll say you need to AI to help you focus on what really matters and automate what doesn’t. I keep hearing this all the time from everywhere.

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@katchwreck@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 22:17

@soller@floss.social boosted popularity of Amish subculture is my guess

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@serebit@floss.social 2026-03-12 22:18

@soller@floss.social You and me both, man. Genuinely I think the LLM push in the software space has made it harder for me to enjoy working on FLOSS. It's become so hard to avoid.

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@guenther@chaos.social 2026-03-12 22:37

@soller@floss.social > Software will get worse before it gets better. I fear this isn't exclusive to software.

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@stepschwarz@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 01:10

@soller@floss.social I’ve been in tech a long time — three decades, professionally — and until very recently, I thought I could adapt to anything in this industry. I looked forward to it. Now, I’m not so sure. This past year or so has been a slog, hasn’t it? I assumed the joy would always be there, but it’s getting hard to find. FWIW, I updated to COSMIC the other day and it’s soooo great. I appreciate you all.

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@flovanmd@floss.social 2026-03-13 05:40

@soller@floss.social I see your frustration. It's pity. I hope you are able to feel more joy again soon. From my perspective your are doing a great job. I really enjoy Cosmic every day and I also so curious to see what comes next in Redox. Even If I haven't the time right now to contribute I still feel strongly connected to it.

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@flovanmd@floss.social 2026-03-13 05:56

@soller@floss.social I'm in the position to evaluated for our company how we can use LLMs. But for us it's not mandatory to use. I don't understand why people get forced to use it. People who decide such things are only hyped and don't understand what LLMs really are. In some cases it can be a handy tool but it can not replace a human. LLMs: no real creativity, no emotions, hard to see the whole picture. To develop a successful project you need experienced people. Get experience by doing it by yourself!

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@soph@grrl.me 2026-03-13 21:22

@soller@floss.social Seriously starting to consider returning to the old way we did open source, where you built up a human connection, did very intentional patches, etc. rather than all of this big source control is a social network thing.

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