Paying a contribution will not give me the feature I want or need from a project, most project explicitly say so. Paying for a LLM to create a PR or a fork that will contain that feature is often a lot easier and a pretty good guarantee I will get it.
I am not diving into the code quality or maintainability of such PR/forks which is a whole thing in itself.
I am not diving into the code quality or maintainability of such PR/forks which is a whole thing in itself.
Is it a whole separate thing though? Maintainability of open source projects seems like the main concern for OP. Creating a fork that is impossible to maintain or merge is rot. The only people that benefit from it are you, temporarily, but mostly just Anthropic.
I’m going to play devil’s advocate here.
Paying a contribution will not give me the feature I want or need from a project, most project explicitly say so. Paying for a LLM to create a PR or a fork that will contain that feature is often a lot easier and a pretty good guarantee I will get it.
I am not diving into the code quality or maintainability of such PR/forks which is a whole thing in itself.
Is it a whole separate thing though? Maintainability of open source projects seems like the main concern for OP. Creating a fork that is impossible to maintain or merge is rot. The only people that benefit from it are you, temporarily, but mostly just Anthropic.
I mainly just make my own projects or fork and add to existing stuff, I figure as long as it’s MIT FOSS meh it kinda equals out.
I also only spend about 30 a month for two services and run a local one.