Open source's anti-AI crowd mocked as the same 'woke' activists in new clothes

esrtweet · x · 2026-10-25

esrtweet observes that open source's anti-AI voices largely overlap with the community's former "woke" contingent, noting their denunciatory language feels eerily familiar even as the reality-denial is more blatant. The quoted post goes further, calling it the best thing to happen to open source: the community's "problem children" are filtering themselves out, letting productive builders finally break decades of deadlock and rebuild. A snapshot of the AI-driven rift in open source culture.

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