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dvttoday at 9:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's always the most insufferable people that make the biggest hullabaloo about a project they have nothing to do with and have never contributed to. People with literally zero skin in the game using the AI boogeyman to push some agenda or some anti-agenda. OSS has become so incredibly toxic in the past decade, and consumers of OSS have become extremely entitled.

I run a smallish project with ~1k stars and I've stopped maintaining it last year because people feel like they're absolutely owed features or bug-fixes or whatever. It's tiring and a complete shame that author has to make such an insane deep dive into a random accusation that just caught on social media.

Also, the "making soup for the homeless & pissing in it" is not only an off-base analogy (software is pretty low on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs), but also somehow looks down on both homeless people and the volunteers that help them.