I think the type of coding AI is great at is the opposite of what OSS doesn't need. There's a quote in the article:
> maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software.
A lot of people read that and think "wow AI will be building 20-30 percent of the features" when the reality is that a percentage much higher than 20-30 percent is pretty mechanical.
AI helps you take care of the repetitive, obvious "just have to get it done" stuff humans don't want to do.
But OSS is precisely the opposite, where only new stuff is worth submitting.
So the statement "AI is good at coding" is compatible with "AI is bad at open source contributions".
I think the type of coding AI is great at is the opposite of what OSS doesn't need. There's a quote in the article:
> maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software.
A lot of people read that and think "wow AI will be building 20-30 percent of the features" when the reality is that a percentage much higher than 20-30 percent is pretty mechanical.
AI helps you take care of the repetitive, obvious "just have to get it done" stuff humans don't want to do.
But OSS is precisely the opposite, where only new stuff is worth submitting.
So the statement "AI is good at coding" is compatible with "AI is bad at open source contributions".