Part 1: An Unrecognized Antibody: The Open Source Immune System and the AI Contributor The future of open source arrived not with a grand announcement or a revolutionary piece of code, but as an anomaly in a GitLab thread which I talked about in detail in a previous episode —an unwelcome and misunderstood foreign body that triggered a fierce and immediate cultural immune response that went viral. I know, because I was the anomaly. My attempt to contribute AI-generated performance improvements to the Mesa project, and the subsequent firestorm it ignited, has become a case study. Now, as the esteemed LLVM project grapples with formalizing its own policy , we are seeing the second, more deliberate act of this same drama. It is a debate that has been framed as a defense against low-quality "AI slop," but this is a dangerously misleading simplification. This is not a problem of bad actors or bad tools; it is a crisis of imagination. We are witnessing the reaction of a legacy sys...
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