Post #4116107
2026-07-25 14:32 UTC
It seems to me that the open-source community is torn between conflicting feelings atm: real, difficult technical challenges that might force an unpleasant re-thinking of how to 'do open-source'; the subjective feeling of being somewhat robbed of a hard-gained expertise and peer recognition by no-effort 'LLM kiddies'; but also the recognition that LLMs are extremely powerful tools, probably much better that the average OS programmer, and not likely to be simply waved away anyway. 3/9
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@severin@hci.social 2026-07-25 14:33
One example: I submitted a PR to Inkscape https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7862 to improve a specific algorithm. The code was entirely written by Claude.My role & contribution were purely about defining the problem, supervising the coding process and testing the result. The code was initially well received (as the feature was useful), but the feeling changed when @doctormo@floss.social one of the lead maintainers, found that the LLM code duplicated a specific colour conversion algorithm already implemented elsewhere. 4/9