Used correctly, AI, as with Anthropic and Mozilla, can help open source. Used badly, as with Google and FFmpeg, AI hurts open source. Linux is using AI to handle many boring but necessary tasks.

Open source collective reinvents web video players, with minimal adaptive bitrate player now 38kB gzipped vs. typical ...

Cloudflare released vinext, an experimental Next.js reimplementation built on Vite by one engineer, with AI guidance over one week, for $1,100. Early benchmarks show 4.4x faster builds, but Cloudflare ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...