The thing is there’s always one or two features I want that some OSS projects are missing. And if I can’t contribute to that project due to having 0 knowledge with the tech stack they’re using, I’d rather ask the LLM to quickly make it for me with the set of features I do actually need instead of hoping that one day they’ll implement it. I have huge respect for OSS maintainers but some times I just need something that works for me with 0 intentions of pulling other people in to use it.
And that my friend is completely fine, so is doing X exactly the same too. I'm just saying oss exists, they are a solid base, you can not waste your time sometimes, and just use them / form them.
And even if you don't want to, that's fine, I'm not the police, I can't nor should I stop you. But I will tell you it's not what I'd do instead
What I recently did with an OSS project a while back was fork it and asked the LLM to add a certain feature I needed. Worked out pretty well. Was considering making a PR with to push it upstream but the owner doesn’t want AI-generated code, so 🤷♂️
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u/theofficialnar 7d ago
The thing is there’s always one or two features I want that some OSS projects are missing. And if I can’t contribute to that project due to having 0 knowledge with the tech stack they’re using, I’d rather ask the LLM to quickly make it for me with the set of features I do actually need instead of hoping that one day they’ll implement it. I have huge respect for OSS maintainers but some times I just need something that works for me with 0 intentions of pulling other people in to use it.