Open Source Builders Name What AI Took Without Asking

The post that captured the community's anger was not a novel argument — it was the concise statement of one that had been building across maintainer communities for months. The injury has two phases: first, training data ingestion that monetized years of freely licensed work without attribution or compensation; second, the collapse of the business model that had subsidized that work. AI breaking open source economics through hallucinated bug reports and spam pull requests is the second blow landing on a community already absorbing the first. The maintainers closing their…