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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 17, 2026 | AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet by VorpalWay | 422 | 356 |
