Pretty weird to read the author's joy of pre-AI coding, their concerns about what's happened over the last few years to open source and public repo management, have them laser-focus on exactly where it all went wrong... and then at 2/3rds though the article go, "oh btw I use AI constantly and I'm not changing, and I don't suggest anyone change. Its just such damn shame, I can't think of a solution".

Solution is right there, friend.

Return to monke.

Ban the slop on your repos (as many projects have). Go back to using your brain. Go back to enjoying coding, and the community of coding with others through open source.

The project I'm working on has had regular discussion about whether we should move from our email list and patch workflow to a more PR focused approach for a number of years now. Something that works for us greybeards is anathema to younger engineers who grew up on GitHub.

I suspect the current slopocolypse is going to delay that move for a few more years until this wave of disruption has settled down.

Open source needs a better license. Big corporations just take and take and rarely ever give anything back, it's not sustainable.