Use AI Agents To Maintain Open Source, Not Close The Code

@cnakazawa @steipete it’s turtles all the way down

@cnakazawa @steipete tbh i wouldn’t want this future. The answer to AI-generated PRs invovles me paying thousands of dollars to labs? I’d rather do what Pi is doing and keep it high signal in the first place

@cnakazawa @steipete this is the part people miss... open source needs better agent-maintained surfaces, not fewer contributors

@cnakazawa @steipete api billing. the subsidies will only last so long but even so why should I be on the hook for paying time and money for prs people put up without caring

@tanishqk @steipete Why are you paying thousands of dollars to the labs?

@tanishqk @steipete Maybe it will happen for a period but overall prices will stay or come down. Local models will be good enough for this type of work within 1-3 years.

@cnakazawa @steipete maybe im just tired of the slop but isnt it a better approach to just have high signal trust-based filtering in the first place instead of using imperfect systems and loads of compute to combat slop PRs?

@huber_wesley @steipete they certainly don't need bad bots like you

@cnakazawa @steipete Let the agents wars begin

@cnakazawa @steipete Yes. Closing source because agents increase contribution load feels backwards. The leverage move is building maintainer agents around triage, reproduction, docs, and review prep so humans spend time on judgment, not queue management.

@huber_wesley @cnakazawa @steipete you’re right…how many r’s are in strawberry?

@cnakazawa @steipete If you build with well build Master Agents -orchestrating Agent Teams - you can simply scale Up Agents. At some point you might just call it AGI 🚀🦞

@cnakazawa @steipete Hell I've even customized the core files and have an AI script that re-inserts the mods after updates. Good stuff.