Three prevalent themes in the discussion
- AI‑generated contributions are flooding projects and lowering signal‑to‑noise
- “The flood of low effort AI-contributions makes accepting anonymous contributions impractical nowadays. They'd waste hours reviewing things of no value… I now only review the PR if the message is a single unformatted paragraph with few emojis, I find this to be a good signal that it was made by a human.” — tredre3
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“Realistically some there's going to have to be a cultural realization that machine‑generated low effort slop is not any more desired or helpful than human‑generated low effort slop.” — cosmic_cheese
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Concern over the project’s closed‑development governance
- “I'm still very interested in the project … but something is off ever since they announced the decision to close the project to outside contributions. It's still Open Source, but only a self‑selected group of maintainers gets to write and merge code, at least for the time being.” — sho_hn
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“That is the way the BSDs are developed and they're free software… Let them get the thing up and running first, then see how the project handles external contributions.” — hagbard_c
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Skepticism about Ladybird’s ability to gain meaningful market share versus established browsers
- “Sure, it could easily take 1%. Going above 5%, OTOH, I would be shocked to ever see happen… Mass‑market adoption requires working well on an enormous long tail, which is difficult without a large team. The primary driver of playing at that size is mass marketing/distribution, which requires $$$.” — pkasting
- “I'm highly skeptical that they can create a real rival to established browsers… Web standards are simply too complex and huge.” — senfiaj