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Relevant since we started outright rejecting agent-made PRs in awesome-selfhosted [1] and issuing bans for it. Some PRs made in good faith could probably get caught in the net, but it's currently the only decent tradeoff we could make to absorb the massive influx of (bad) contributions. >99.9% of them are invalid for other reasons anyway. Maybe a good solution will emerge over time.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 9 hours ago

Well one way is I don't depend on it already. But it's also not like food or water, or grid, society infrastructure in general. It's just another way of doing compute, but dependent on big tech's big iron. Being made dependent on big tech is the enshitification. It's just another method, they have already done all the anticompetition they can. Consumer choice isn't a solution to regulatory failure, but it's not nothing.

On top of poltical/power problem, it will have similar effect on software developer brains as satnavs do the navigation parts of our brains. Like satnavs, there will be way to get the good / bad balance better, but that's not in big tech's interest. It's all so damn toxic and drowning open source project in slop PR requests.