Stages of grief about the effect of AI on open source
Andreas Kling@awesomeklingStages of grief about the effect of AI on open source. Nobody serious will use this. - Open source will keep working exactly like it always has. Anger: - These AI slop PRs are ruining GitHub! - Ban AI-generated code! - If you close PRs, you're not open source anymore!
- ▪Andreas Kling@awesomeklingStages of grief about the effect of AI on open source.
- ▪Nobody serious will use this. - Open source will keep working exactly like it always has.
- ▪Anger: - These AI slop PRs are ruining GitHub! - Ban AI-generated code! - If you close PRs, you're not open source anymore!
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | X (formerly Twitter) |
| Canonical URL | https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/2105814628785934386 |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:46:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T05:55:44.341Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T05:55:44.341Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qh2NgTzWutZf · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Andreas Kling@awesomeklingStages of grief about the effect of AI on open source. Denial: - AI code is slop! Nobody serious will use this. - Open source will keep working exactly like it always has. Anger: - These AI slop PRs are ruining GitHub! - Ban AI-generated code! - If you close PRs, you're not open source anymore! Bargaining: - Okay, AI can write code, but only if a human reviews every line. - Maybe adversarial AI review will make arbitrary external code intake safe again. Depression: - Wait, if code generation is basically free, what is a contribution anymore? - Is GitHub-style open source culture just going away? Acceptance: - Open source is still open source, even if the contribution model evolves.
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