I’ve read today a contributor to an open source project says, in substance: "If generated code is accepted in the project, I will stop contributing because I don’t want to spend time trying to understand the code in order to contribute just to see it changed the next generated commit" […]

When I talk about the impact of language-model-based and "agentic" coding on open-source communities, and on human to human interaction, I am more often than not talking about: - How I cannot trust there is a human on the other end who wants to learn or be part of my community - How it is an […]

alternate perspective, if you're from a background with high respect and position: your title isn't part of your label, that's modeled with a relationship to the kind of degree you got, when, and by whom it was conferred

@biohackrxiv sounds great, will read soon! building a more sustainable foundation than pandoc would be a key step towards this. My experience contributing to pandoc/inara/the JOSS platform left a lot to be desired

there's an unfortunate conflict between open science (I can participate in discussion and contribute to code on a centralized platform like GitHub) and sovereign science (I can't easily contribute or meet people on internal platforms like institutional GitLab instances) anyway, my EBI GitLab […]

@egonw lol

like any sane person, I auto-formatted the code before. and they added in a spurious space while editing the variable names. stay safe out there

i submitted a beautiful, hand-crafted PR with good variable names, which got merged, then the maintainers updated it in a follow-up to change the variable names to be cryptic. crazy times we live in