Welcome to the Eternal September of open source

Something I never thought I’d see: an open source project saying they have too many contributors and contributions.

With AI, I sometimes feel like I can fly when I code. I can also understand how people who aren’t developers might feel something similar. If you know how to interact properly with tools like Claude, you can bootstrap a project very quickly.

But understanding the code is a completely different story.

Producing software is not just about generating code. It’s about security, upgrade paths, architecture, coding guidelines, long-term maintainability, consistency, testing, documentation… and much more.

Code is only one part of the equation.

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