> So you are saying that the quality of the projects is going down?

The website seems to at the least be semi-generated via AI. But I think the statement that the quality of many projects went downwards, is true.

I am not saying all projects became worse, per se, but if you, say, search for some project these days, often you land on a github page only. Or primarily. How is the documentation there? Usually there is README.md and some projects have useful documentation. But in most cases that I found, open source projects really have incredibly poor documentation for the most part. Documentation is not code, so the code could be great, but I am increasingly noticing that even if the code gets better, the documentation just gets worse; rarely updated, if at all. Even when you file requests for specific improvements, often there is no response or change, probably because the author just lacks time to do so, anyway.

But I am also seeing that the code also gets worse. AI generated slop is often unreadable and unmaintainable. I have even recently seen AI spam slop used on mailing lists - look here:

https://lists.ffmpeg.org/archives/list/[email protected]...

Michael Niedermayer does not seem to understand why AI slop is a problem. One comment reveals that. I don't read mailing lists myself really (never was able to keep up with traffic) but I would be pissed to no ends if AI spam like that would land into my mailbox and waste my time. Yet the people who use AI spam, don't seem to understand mentally why that is a problem. This is interesting. They suddenly think spam is ok if AI generated it. So the overall trend is that quality goes down more and more. Not in all projects but in many of them.