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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by jansan on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:33AM (#50365302)
I do not have an example for this, but the most ridiculous argument for open source software (at lease for most people) has always been that if the software has a bug you could simply fix it yourself. Funny enough this has actually become kind of true with new LLMs.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by duskdozer on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:00AM (#50365625)
Did you not fix bugs in the oss you run, pre-LLM? Or not bugs, just your own changes? Being able to just grab the source and tweak it without needing to try to RE or wait around or convince the owners/developers to do something I wanted to happen was one of the biggest selling points.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by StilesCrisis on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:41AM (#50368157)
Most people did not do this, no. Or even if you did, upstreaming the patch was even more uncommon.
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