开源维护者濒临倦怠

Volunteers that maintain the open-source software the modern world relies on are struggling with the growing burden of fixing AI-written code, reports Matthew Sparkes A VIRAL cartoon about open- source software shows a teetering pile of boxes labelled “all modern digital infrastructure” and one tiny box right at the bottom, propping up the whole lot: “a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”. That’s the reality of open source: every website, application and operating system relies on it. Modern society couldn’t function without it, yet it’s written by volunteers in their spare time. …