alt Hacker News11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People
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Reflecting the enormous effectiveness of free markets in the software space. If there was a strong regulatory system around software development it might cost orders of magnitude more to run a modern OS.
The problem with open source like this is that it’s too difficult to work on, and if you start studying just to be able to work on it, it’s hard to get noticed. Most core open-source projects start with optimization and are extremely difficult. But would people with that level of skill really dislike being noticed?
> "xz: The Backdoor That Put One Maintainer in the Spotlight"
Do people who publish this stuff read this and think "this LLMism sounds good to me"?
Isn't that a rip off of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002494 ?
Wait it's not AI agents waat
OK so we only need to employ 22 people as a WORLD to have these guys full time employed? when can we start enshittifying it?
Obligatory (and referenced in the article):
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23/23 were included in model training data though, so maybe the bus factor is a wash after all.
…and the second person in how many of the two-person projects is Jia Tan?