Open source is often described as the backbone of modern technology, yet the labour that sustains it remains largely invisible. Beneath the repositories and release notes are people who design ...

Top open-source maintainers find that AI has suddenly become much more useful. There are still legal and 'AI slop' problems to overcome. By year's end, AI programming tools should be much more ...

The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing AI-written submissions are causing some to burn out and quit ...