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The article discusses the issue of abandoned open-source software packages on npm, highlighting the maintenance burden for developers and proposing that AI could be an ideal solution for maintaining these packages due to its ability to learn from feedback.
AI 生成摘要
文章探討了 npm 上被廢棄的開源軟體套件問題，強調了開發者的維護負擔，並提出 AI 可作為維護這些套件的理想解決方案，因為 AI 能從回饋中學習。
AI and abandonware
Back in the day, we started using @slack-wrench/blocks to generate Slack messages. It was from IBM, so you sort of assume it has a well-funded backer.
But! Like many of the roughly two million packages on npm[1], it’s been abandoned. Fortunately this one has zero dependencies, but many others are a lodestone of outdated dependencies.
The problem is that these are a real drag to maintain, especially niche ones. Triaging user issues, reviewing PRs, testing, and releasing. Not exactly fun, and it’s very rare to get any financial, or really any, reward from it.
But that’s not an issue for an AI. If you keep it in a lane, maintenance only, it’s actually perfect. You’ve got a tight feedback loop. Address issues, fix, user gives feedback. That’s gold-plated reinforcement data for the coding tools out there.
AI companies should be asking for the keys to these repos!
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