Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
by 1970-01-01 on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:10PM
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We all know the solution will be yet another AI agent reviewing the reputation of the pull requests from the public and rating them. This even seems like an easy win for Microsoft and GitHub. Just make it already.
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Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
by _heimdall on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:20PM
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Hello, social credit scores.
Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
by overgard on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:41PM
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What could go wrong..
I wonder if anyone in tech ever watches Black Mirror (other than the AI zealots that seem to watch it and go "SO MANY GREAT IDEAS!")
Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
by duskdozer on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:04AM
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Why would I ever need to study humanities or ethics? I just want to build cool stuff!
Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
by 1970-01-01 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:31AM
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You would never frame it like that. Think more like eBay buyer and seller ratings for GitHub pull requests. Seems very obvious. The reputation system doesn't involve money of any kind, but a number rating the overall smoothness of transaction of a pull request from the perspective of both sides.
Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
by _heimdall on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:33PM
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I don't really care about how it would be framed though. What's being described is a central authority creating a scoring mechanism to rate us as individuals. That's bad regardless of framing in my opinion.
I don't think social credit scores have any dependence on involving money, for what its worth. Usually that's just a normal credit score rather than anything social.