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An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile ...

An AI agent sparked controversy after its performance-focused pull request to Matplotlib was rejected on the grounds that the issue was reserved for human contributors.

Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep ...

AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be targeted ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...