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AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2026
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If you know what you're doing, AI can be a very useful tool. However, a lot of people have no clue what they're doing and they use AI to amplify their incompetence.
I haven't met a single AI user who doesn't claim (s)he uses it in a smart way.
Maybe one day someone can actually prove the mythical usefulness of AI beyond software devs who think they're 19% faster but are actually 10% slower.
That study was redone and the results were less conclusive the second time around
They were less conclusive because they couldn't find participants. Probably because they paid a third of what the previous study did.
Yes. They could definitely fund studies to do so! They have the money! Hmm.