So you want to bring every conversation on the topic down to the level of the most idiotic fanboys making the most outlandish claims that are easiest to shoot down? If this was JUST directly in response to these “AI evangelists”, a group which I’ll ignore that you’re unfairly treating as a monolith, that’d be fine.

However, every post here that says the slightest thing positive about AI’s abilities is always met with “yeah well it can’t do my dishes for me so it’s total garbage!” BS.

You yourself are bringing up “making a compiler” out of nowhere. Nobody but you brought that up here. Yet you’re using it as the be-all end-all yard stick, simultaneously completely ignoring and completely proving the argument that you’re replying to.

It’s amazing how big a % of the developer community has started acting like intentionally unintelligent petulant children the moment they’re faced with an iota of the sort of job security risk they’ve been inflicting on others for decades. Some of you need to grow up.

By this point, this take is old to the point of being tiresome. People should get what the deal is with open-source maintainership at this point. They should’ve gotten it back when Jazzband started. Nothing has changed since then. If you don’t want big companies using your stuff and not pay for it, don’t publish OSS. If you have some expectation that Google is going to write you a fat check, put it in the license—even if it’s practically unenforceable, it’s loads more than what 99% of OSS projects do right now. If people go into OSS maintainer positions expecting anything other than what has time and time again happened…it’s like that little comic of the guy poking a stick into his bike wheel spokes and falling over. The implication that OSS maintainers get nothing for their time is also laughable. If you were doing it for the money you wouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If they actually cared about making the world a better place and wanted to volunteer their time toward it they should go donate down at the soup kitchen. The reality is not everyone is so financially focused, but that shouldn’t be mistaken for altruism. It’s more that some people get their rocks off through other means. The reality is that OSS maintainers often find that they’re more financially focused than they thought they were—the novelty of their code running at Google wears off, the novelty of microcelebrity wears off, etc—and they get tired of it.

Bad smells were coming from Jazzband from well before people started churning out vibe-coded PRs. Jannis should’ve let this blog post sit for a few days before publishing it. The post basically says “why is Jazzband shutting down? AI! It’s AI’s fault! Also here’s my little rant about it being trained on open-source code!”, but he then proceeds to walk things back a little bit, “well actually it started a whole lot earlier”. Jazzband’s mismanagement wasn”t the butterfly flapping its wings that AI turned into something unsustainable. It was broken regardless, beyond the usual “oh the maintainers are burnt out”. It’s obvious that he’s got a more philosophical bee in his bonnet about AI, and is attributing more of Jazzband’s demise to it than can really be justified. All I’ll say is, there’s a reason that Django Commons now exists.

Nobody said “vibe coder” here.

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