What ThePrimeagen thinks about open source

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Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen, a programmer who spent ten years at Netflix and now streams and teaches programming full time on Twitch and YouTube.

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1. 22 Mar 2025

   Our readingThe next attack on open source is denial of attention: LLM-generated fake bug reports that exhaust and demoralise maintainers.

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   Their wordsI think there's this whole idea, I call it a denial of attention. I think there's an entire attack vector that's going to be happening. We're using LLMs to generate fake bug reports, fake all these things to just actually effectively to demotivate and hurt open source maintainers.

   ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 29th of 31 in this recording