Across the open-source ecosystem, AI code tools are disrupting a set of norms that has rewarded developers for building or contributing to software that benefits everyone. In the past, contributions to open-source projects were bullet points on a developer’s CV. But are you a contributor if your contribution was authored by Claude or Codex? And if the “community of users” for your project is increasingly made up of bots, will you still be motivated to build or maintain it? And if not, then what happens when we open the sink tap?
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