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R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs
opinion
2 min read
A moderator of Reddit’s r/opensource said projects that use, are made with, or are intended for AI are no longer welcome in the community, calling current AI incompatible with the subreddit’s open-source community. The moderator said visible use of AI in a project will disqualify it regardless of the number of tokens used to create it. Proposed enforcement criteria require advertised projects to have at least one year of active maintenance, roughly three or more contributors, an existing community, and an OSI-approved license. Projects may not be common school capstone projects, requests for maintainers or contributors, or projects intended for AI use, including MCPs. Posters must also have Reddit accounts at least one year old with significant prior contributions. The moderator said users who contact moderators after unsuccessfully attempting to post may be permanently banned and muted. The policy also says non-English speakers must use another community because moderators say they cannot distinguish AI-written text from AI-translated text. Users who post or comment LLM output may be permanently barred. Organizations incorporated under specified nonprofit tax classifications, including 501(c) and 521(a) entities or foreign equivalents, can seek advance approval for exemptions from project and account minimums. The moderator highlighted r/TrueOpenSource as a potential alternative community for people affected by the policy.
The reverts will continue until morale improves
opinion
6 min read
PostgreSQL 19’s development branch has reverted roughly eight to 10 significant features after its beta period began, far above the roughly one revert per release cycle that may be expected. Some reversions occurred late in beta. PostgreSQL developer Peter Eisentraut said the affected code may in some cases have been insufficient, while other features proved too difficult to complete on schedule or had architectural defects that could not be fixed quickly. Eisentraut said LLM-assisted code review and fuzzing can uncover edge cases much faster than earlier testing methods, producing large volumes of defect reports for features written before those tools became as useful. He also linked late discoveries to senior developers’ security-fix work during the ongoing “Vulnpocalypse” from April through the August PostgreSQL security release, which reduced normal beta-period review and testing. He said PostgreSQL’s broad feature interactions make exhaustive manual testing impractical and argued that LLM-assisted fuzzing should become part of feature development, alongside more robust internal interfaces. The community chose to preserve the release schedule rather than delay PostgreSQL 19 for additional fixes. Eisentraut expects many reverted features to return, while PostgreSQL 19 will retain features including REPACK CONCURRENTLY, logical replication of sequences, and planner hinting through pg_plan_advice.