AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded

Sep 17, 2026 - 07:30
AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded

AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Technology Policy Council, among them Simson Garfinkel and Josiah Dykstra. The tools write code and find security flaws quickly. The maintainers who decide what enters a project’s official release still have to judge that output themselves. That burden reaches anyone who runs software. Open source code sits inside phones, cars, cloud … More

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