I have a strong suspicion the era of attribution in open source is over. Nothing is going to have a verifiable chain of responsibility anymore, it’s all just one big soup of AI-generated and lifted code. Licenses are meaningless
Nov 7, 2026, 2:01 PM@stroughtonsmith And probably a lot more than we’ll ever know, too! It can be easy now for anyone to make apps however they want, but it’s not quite as easy to upload this back for the masses. And even then, yeah! There’s a lot! Just imagine all the one off’s on people’s computers that will never see the light of day.
Nov 7, 2026, 2:25 PM@stroughtonsmith I agree. I mean, as always agents can go through the motions of those old processes but as you say, it is utterly meaningless. Further, it is more and more common that people use multiple models even for a set of work that ultimately becomes a single commit (if ever it is even contributed upstream in the first place).
And I agree that where we are headed is that so much of what used to take collaboration and multiple iterations is now increasingly just single shot implementation that doesn’t “feel” of value to commit when it could just be regenerated any time on a whim.