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All over tbh, most devs are using it to some degree now.
However it's not an "AI" FOSS contribution, it'll be Doug contributing, or Pardep, or whatever.
They just quietly used AI like a normal person for some basic parts of the code to get it done faster, then tweaked it to look better.
I'd expect most FOSS projects with contributions in the past 6months have bits and pieces, a line here or there, written in AI
That's the thing, when the AI performs well, you wouldn't even be able to tell AI was used
"AI" is nowhere because it doesn't exist. Sure, there are programs that are good at summarizing Stackexchange but is that so really amazing? Maybe it saves devs a few seconds? Do we credit "AI" with amazing writing when people use grammar correction? The hype is so inane. Don't feed into it with this nonsense.
As the article explains, they haven't been able to find any meaningful contributions to actual problems. I'm sure that plagarized summaries can help with your boilerplates/etc but that's not "AI".
"AI" is a very broad term. Back when I went to university, my AI course started out with Wumpus World. While this is an extremely simple problem, it's still considered "AI".
The enemies in computer games that are controlled by the computer are also considered "AI".
Machine learning algorithms, like recommender algorithms, and image recognition are also considered "AI"
LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are also "AI"
None of these things are conscious, self aware or intelligent, yet they are part of the field called "AI".
These are however not "AGI" (Artificial General Intelligence). AGI is when the machine becomes conscious, and self aware. This is the scenario that all the sci-fi movies portray. We are still very far away from this stage.