Given that LLMs will be increasingly used to make their job harder, it's an odd policy. OTOH, if a core team was inundated with slop PRs and issue reports, it's an understandable response.

I'd expect them to increasingly use AI to figure out the latest obfuscations regardless.

Good luck to them. It won’t be long before an AI-embracing fork starts getting traction because it will be getting you around blocks sooner than the original.

People can have all the morals they like, but the reality is most people aren’t developers in it for the art of programming. Their user base doesn’t know or care.

What an utterly dystopian attitude.

Having a dramatically higher standard of code quality is dystopian?

"We help people download copyrighted content therefore we ban tool made by copyrighted content"

It's funny

"we work with people on things that help people"

Are you referring to a specific statement by the authors, or is this just a straw-Goomba?

I don't understand what is funny about that? "download copyrighted content" is a statement so unspecific it basically applies to almost all networked applications.

Since you said "help" it gets even worse, because it now includes all software that facilitates networking without performing networking.

For example, a terminal emulator or bash are software that "helps people download copyrighted content" even though neither of them have anything to do with networking or downloading.

I'm really struggling to laugh.

Thanks, added to the list