I wonder if any major project has had forks because of their inclusion or exclusion of AI.
And I’m unsure if that’s positive or not. Maybe it is because it can accommodate the needs and wants of everyone. But then again there’s division and all this tension. The polarization is too much right now. And it may even grow further, as the AI enticement becomes deeper with cheaper, smarter, whatever may happen… Meanwhile, oligarchs are enjoying their Datacenters and pushing their agenda for surveillance and control or even monopoly of one voice, the voice of AI, that holds “the truth” with examples as whatever you get when asking DeepSeek about Tiannamen square. And chatgpt may have blindspots of their own that we are yet to see.
What I’m trying to say is that the political debate is bigger than what any community can really hold without accepting a certain degree of heterogeneity.
I’m not aware of any major project forks due to it, only smaller ones, such as this fork of Waybar that was specifically forked to remove the AI code added to the main project.
Forking the bigger projects would be a pretty huge effort. If enough left at once it could be viable, or perhaps a fork could be cut down to make it more manageable to maintain and develop for a smaller team.
If there is no forks, maybe the dissenters from the major projects will congregate toward independent projects who have already taken a stand against AI.
I wonder if any major project has had forks because of their inclusion or exclusion of AI.
And I’m unsure if that’s positive or not. Maybe it is because it can accommodate the needs and wants of everyone. But then again there’s division and all this tension. The polarization is too much right now. And it may even grow further, as the AI enticement becomes deeper with cheaper, smarter, whatever may happen… Meanwhile, oligarchs are enjoying their Datacenters and pushing their agenda for surveillance and control or even monopoly of one voice, the voice of AI, that holds “the truth” with examples as whatever you get when asking DeepSeek about Tiannamen square. And chatgpt may have blindspots of their own that we are yet to see.
What I’m trying to say is that the political debate is bigger than what any community can really hold without accepting a certain degree of heterogeneity.
There is a no AI vim fork, “evi”: https://codeberg.org/evi-editor/evi
And a no AI tmux fork, “opentmux”: https://codeberg.org/opentmux/opentmux
And a no AI keepass fork, “ChiPass”: https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass/
I’m not aware of any major project forks due to it, only smaller ones, such as this fork of Waybar that was specifically forked to remove the AI code added to the main project.
Forking the bigger projects would be a pretty huge effort. If enough left at once it could be viable, or perhaps a fork could be cut down to make it more manageable to maintain and develop for a smaller team.
If there is no forks, maybe the dissenters from the major projects will congregate toward independent projects who have already taken a stand against AI.
Since Vim moved to accept llm output, Drew DeVault maintains a fork called Vim Classic