Previously in this series: The Four Horsemen of the LLM
Apocalypse. In a post to oss-security, my (Debian) co-developer Russ Allbery
stated that “open source software [OSS] is coming face to face with a
motivation crisis that has been building for a long time”. His point
is essentially that large language models (LLMs1) are making the
existing OSS community crisis worse. For him, it’s the flood of code
reviews, but he argues that varies according to people’s desires, for
others it’s security issues and so on. I think Russ is right, but I would argue there’s something much bigger
than our open communities going on here, and it’s about the entire
field of computing. This pressure is on all of us, regardless of
whether we work…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-18-people-vs-ai-overlords/