I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad.
A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
Yes, it is mind boggling. A while back, there was a heisenbug in a distributed lighting controller I designed. I connected two boards to SWD, connected the serial bus to my scope, told Claude how to get to the scope over TCP, and let it loose. After a few hours it handed me a reproducible case and I was able to fix my hardware mistake that was glitching the serial port.
Yes, it is mind boggling. A while back, there was a heisenbug in a distributed lighting controller I designed. I connected two boards to SWD, connected the serial bus to my scope, told Claude how to get to the scope over TCP, and let it loose. After a few hours it handed me a reproducible case and I was able to fix my hardware mistake that was glitching the serial port.
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