https://minimaxir.com/2023/11/open-source-dead-github/
"Over the past few months, I’ve had an existential crisis about my work in open
source AI on GitHub, particularly as there has been both increasingly toxic
backlash against AI and because the AI industry has been evolving so rapidly
that I flat-out don’t have enough bandwidth to keep up. I took a break from
working on my projects during that time, which should have been fine. One of my
latest open source projects is simpleaichat, a Python package with 3k GitHub
Stars for interfacing with ChatGPT, and it was explicitly designed with limited
scope and minimal dependencies so that I could take a break from development
without my code…breaking.
After I was in a good place mentally to resume my open source work, I glanced
at the GitHub Issues for simpleaichat and someone filed a issue simply titled
“has this been abandoned?” with another GitHub user following up with “With all
due respect, I am also interested in the answer.”
What the hell? I panicked and checked if there was a new breaking issue or
dependency and there weren’t any.
Two days later, someone else filed another issue: “Is this package still in
ongoing development?”
To be perfectly clear, this absolutely is applying pressure and being rude."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
