I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

Re:I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archive... by Chance-Device on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:04PM (#50154885)

This is an overreaction. Yes, with AI we can all write our own features and bug fixes for open source, but there’s still community benefit in having a canonical version somewhere, rather than everyone writing bespoke solutions for themselves.

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Re:I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archive... by swiftcoder on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:13PM (#50155035)

> there’s still community benefit in having a canonical version somewhere, rather than everyone writing bespoke solutions for themselves.

There is sharply reduced benefit to the maintainer, however as they are now buried in slop bug reports and PRs, and a bunch of people with no context and a Claude subscription think they can do it better.

I expect a lot of open-source maintainers will walk away from that particular bargain in the near future

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Re:I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archive... by Chance-Device on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:17PM (#50155111)

Would you prefer we leave it entirely to the AIs? That’s an option, probably the default option. If you’re opposed to it, then why advocate for it?

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Re:I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archive... by swiftcoder on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:47PM (#50155494)

I'm not really advocating for any position here - just pointing out that open-source maintainer was a thankless role before LLMs, and it's only become worse since.

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