No, the comment I responded to was about the ~2014 uptick, not the recent one.

The recent one is obviously AI one way or another. Absolute contribution rate is higher due to AI as well.

They do, but I still use the correct dash in code comments. It’s easy to type with a compose key. I don’t know; I’ve just always done it. I think maybe because English is not my first language so I spent a while learning all the grammatical rules; it feels wrong to deliberately break them to indicate an informal tone, the way a lot of people do online.

If the graph is not just using made up data, then it also measures absolute em-dashes, not em-dash density, so possibly could be an increase in interest in contributing to the kernel?

Escalator breaking in such a way that it goes way too quickly could make it unusable.

They, notably, did not say that PHP was good.

Why is this marked NSFW?

Anyway, maybe lie in bed for a bit, do some reading, eventually get up and make breakfast and coffee. Watch the sun rise. Get some work in before whatever obligations I have in the morning. Sometimes go to the supermarket as soon as it opens because it’s nice and quiet first thing in the morning. Can buy your food for the week without a flood of children running into your stomach.

It’s a shorthand. It doesn’t mean that AI is categorically incapable of producing code that is acceptable. If you ask an LLM to write a hello world program I’m sure everyone here can agree it would most likely produce a correct program.

I think “fat” is sarcastic. At least that’s how it reads to me.

They aren’t specific about how the question was posed, no, but page 9’s wording does state that it is maintainer-estimated, and specifies the terms “low-quality” and “slop” as the qualifier for the 25% figure, so unless they’ve made a huge logical leap, I think it is reasonable to conclude that maintainers were specifically asked about low-quality AI-generated PRs (or “AI slop”). I think people are sensible enough these days to not deny that AIs sometimes produce acceptable code.

Literally just having ollama installed and some models that work well with the amount of VRAM I have. I don’t auto-start the daemon because I rarely use it. Occasionally I use it for proof-reading/feedback on things like cover letters, or debugging. I don’t let it write anything. If it has something useful to say it can tell me in the chat and I can implement it if it’s good. Usually I don’t need it though so it just sits on my disk for the most part.

If you actually read the article, you’ll see that “slop” in the survey does not refer to AI-driven PRs in general, but to specifically low-quality AI-generated PRs. The % of PRs with AI-generated code would be higher. 25% of all PRs being low-quality AI-generated code is a lot.

They are slop according to the maintainers, which I would say should be the arbiter of that.

Wow, this article really reads as LLM-generated to me. The quoted section with the “We won’t pretend otherwise:”, the second paragraph in:

This post isn’t about how to update. It’s about how these vulnerabilities were found and fixed, what has changed in how PHP security is handled over the past two years, and what we need from the organizations that depend on PHP to keep PHP’s security work going.

Could they not be bothered to write a write-up about such a critical severity?

Calling austerity “responsible money management” is insane. It kills people.

I would say to just require them to be tagged, but the volume of them seems quite high. Might be better to just ban them and they can create a separate community.

Shortbread. Very simple ingredients (flour, butter, sugar), and uses lots of butter. Hard to screw up and tasty even if you keep it very simple.

Or just appreciate not having to buy any butter for a while. If it’s in the freezer, it’ll keep.

What you’re looking for is fanfiction.

A lot of FOSS solutions have funny names, mascots, etc. I’m surprised if IT/tech workers aren’t used to it. Just politely tell them, yes, it has slightly silly branding, but look past it and it’s software that does what you want.

Exactly. What happened to “restriction of what a user can do with software or its source code is an infringement upon the users’ rights”? I’m not saying that AI companies are acting in the spirit of FOSS, they’re not, their models aren’t even open-weight (for the most part), but the issue is not the training on materials that ought to be public domain anyway. There’s plenty of ethical issues with modern technology. It’s not sustainable at all, the supply chain is full of slavery, it generates huge amounts of emissions, etc. People’s primary concern being pearl clutching about “plagiarism” shows where their priorities lie. If AI companies have plagiarised then I couldn’t care less. It’s everything else they’re doing that’s the problem.

For things that are on Twitter but not on other websites. Of which there is still a lot. People who rely on Nitter for updates from organisations or people who only have a Twitter presence, will not stop checking those accounts just because Nitter is down. They’d just go on actual Twitter instead. Nitter at least gives them options.