I’ll preface this by saying I’m not an AI buff. I use it (unpaid) mostly for a search aid or assistance with setting up services in my homeserver (new to homelabbing) when I get stuck, as I don’t have an unlimited amount of time to devote to it due to life obligations.
My question is: Do you feel it is ethical and/or moral to use AI to develop FOSS?
I’m genuinely torn on this issue. Part of me feels it’s counterintuitive, yet the another part of me knows the probability of it going away are slim to none and using it to develop FOSS is a way to “use it against itself”, for lack of a better term.
This is my first post on Lemmy. I’m asking to please keep it cordial. I’m not looking for an elitist lecture. I genuinely want to know the community’s thoughts.
P.S. I’ve toyed with local models, but I don’t have the hardware to make them remotely useful. I’m still learning and tweaking to see what can be achieved on limited hardware.
Frontier models today have a context window of 1 million. KDE is an interesting case, because not only does it have a serious spaghetti code problem, it’s also fairly modular, so Ai could probably contribute very effectively to parts of it & perhaps even explain & comprehend some past developer choices that are not that human comprehensible anymore. (and being familiar with one of the current active KDE developers, I’d be surprised if he were not vibecoding like a boss)