{"id":60408,"date":"2026-04-01T01:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b2ef2ba4-7e3b-45dd-9336-508fca1e5d60"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:40:49","slug":"how-ai-has-suddenly-become-much-more-useful-to-open-source-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-ai-has-suddenly-become-much-more-useful-to-open-source-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI has suddenly become much more useful to open-source developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"c-shortcodeImage u-clearfix c-shortcodeImage-large\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_imageContainer\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_image\"><picture class=\"c-cmsImage c-cmsImage_loaded\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/f0f3d49dc77dbed269018dd70226e9fca4667d96\/2026\/03\/31\/91ab303b-bed2-472b-82e8-10f75bda7d3a\/aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=768\" alt=\"aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/fe3cba34a7adf7f9db2f46d2fe02b7b2b4f650ae\/2026\/03\/31\/91ab303b-bed2-472b-82e8-10f75bda7d3a\/aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1024\" alt=\"aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/c4ef2025eb57870c07ad10ea361b732b683df5a3\/2026\/03\/31\/91ab303b-bed2-472b-82e8-10f75bda7d3a\/aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1280\" alt=\"aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/c4ef2025eb57870c07ad10ea361b732b683df5a3\/2026\/03\/31\/91ab303b-bed2-472b-82e8-10f75bda7d3a\/aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1280\" alt=\"aicodescreenshot-2026-03-31-153221\" width=\"1280\" height=\"732.0261437908496\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p> <!----><\/div><figcaption> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">imaginima\/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Follow ZDNET:&nbsp;<\/em><span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cc.zdnet.com\/v1\/otc\/00hQi47eqnEWQ6T9d4QLBUc?element=BODY&amp;element_label=Add+us+as+a+preferred+source&amp;module=LINK&amp;object_type=text-link&amp;object_uuid=67a81ad2-9acf-41a8-9e2b-a67bd74bf523&amp;position=1&amp;template=article&amp;track_code=__COM_CLICK_ID__&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fpreferences%2Fsource%3Fq%3Dzdnet.com&amp;view_instance_uuid=d7146eb5-514e-4dcf-91bc-2568e61a0747&amp;object_version=040ca078-9508-48c2-b765-6e48a7dd0b50\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><!----><\/a><\/span><em>&nbsp;on Google.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Top open-source maintainers find that AI has suddenly become much more useful.<\/li>\n<li>There are still legal and &#8216;AI slop&#8217; problems to overcome.<\/li>\n<li>By year&#8217;s end, AI programming tools should be much more reliable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>With open-source software running pretty much everything, you might think that multiple developers maintain most of the important programs with help from corporate sponsors. You&#8217;d be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As Josh Bressers, VP of security at software supply-chain company <a href=\"https:\/\/anchore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">Anchore<\/a>, pointed out last year, the vast majority of open-source projects, 7 million out of 11.8 million programs, <a href=\"https:\/\/opensourcesecurity.io\/2025\/08-oss-one-person\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">have only a single maintainer<\/a>. You might think that those programs are obscure or no longer used. You&#8217;d be wrong about that, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ai-coding-techniques\/\">7 AI coding techniques I use to ship real, reliable products &#8211; fast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bressers looked closely at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/#link={%22role%22:%22standard%22,%22href%22:%22https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/%22,%22target%22:%22%22,%22absolute%22:%22%22,%22linkText%22:%22JavaScript NPM%22}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">JavaScript NPM<\/a>&nbsp;ecosystem and found that, among the projects downloaded over a million times a month, &#8220;about half of the 13,000 most downloaded NPM packages are [maintained by]&nbsp;<em>one person<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ow!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To think of it another way, thousands of vital programs are one car accident or heart attack away from being knocked out. That is not good.<\/p>\n<h2>AI tools have recently become much better at coding<\/h2>\n<p>What can we do about it? You can&#8217;t wave a magic wand and miraculously find thousands of ready-to-go expert maintainers. Instead, several prominent open-source maintainers have been considering using AI to keep legacy codebases alive or to make them easier to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s possible because, believe it or not, AI coding tools have recently become much better at coding. That&#8217;s not my opinion. At my best, I was an OK programmer. No, that&#8217;s the opinion of Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux stable kernel.<\/p>\n<p>Kroah-Hartman and I got together at <a href=\"https:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">KubeCon Europe<\/a> in Amsterdam recently. He told me, &#8220;Months ago, we were getting what we called &#8216;AI slop,&#8217; AI-generated security reports that were obviously wrong or low quality.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ai-curse-and-blessing-to-open-source-software-developers\/\">Why AI is both a curse and a blessing to open-source software &#8211; according to developers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then, something wonderful happened. &#8220;A month ago,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;the world switched. Now we have real reports. All open-source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they&#8217;re good, and they&#8217;re real. All open source security teams are hitting this right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What happened? Kroah-Hartman shrugged: &#8220;We don&#8217;t know. Nobody seems to know why. Either a lot more tools got a lot better, or people started going, &#8216;Hey, let&#8217;s start looking at this.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that doesn&#8217;t mean that Anthropic Claude is going to replace Linus Torvalds anytime soon, or even a mid-level programmer at your company. What it does mean, though, is that, when used properly &#8212; no vibe coding here &#8212; AI could help clean up old but still used code; maintain abandoned programs; and improve existing code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-overselling-of-ai-and-how-to-resist-it\/\">The overselling of AI &#8211; and how to resist it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, Dirk Hondhel, Verizon&#8217;s senior director of open source, posted on LinkedIn that while AI coding tools aren&#8217;t yet ready to maintain code, he believes they will be soon. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/dirkhohndel_fosdem-2026-lets-end-open-source-together-activity-7439060787765334016-CvUu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">This is almost possible today.<\/a> And at the rate of improvement these tools have seen over the last couple of quarters, I am convinced that it will be possible with acceptable results at some point this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the only one. Ruby project maintainer Stan Lo (st0012) wrote that AI has already helped him with documentation themes, refactors, and debugging, and he explicitly wonders whether <a href=\"https:\/\/st0012.dev\/2025\/12\/30\/ai-and-open-source-a-maintainers-take-end-of-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">AI tools will &#8220;help revive unmaintained projects&#8221;<\/a> and &#8220;raise a new generation of contributors &#8212; or even maintainers.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there&#8217;s already one AI project, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/astrio-ai\/atlas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">Autonomous Transpilation for Legacy Application Systems (ATLAS)<\/a>, that helps developers modernize legacy codebases for modern programming languages. We can expect to see other such AI tools appearing soon. There&#8217;s a lot of obsolete but still-used code out there that could use a modern refresh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The lawyers are going to have a field day &nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Before breaking out the champagne, let&#8217;s consider several major problems. First, if we can improve open-source code with AI, what&#8217;s to stop someone from copying and rewriting existing code and then putting it under a proprietary license? The lawyers are going to have a field day with this. Oh, wait! &#8212; they soon will: Dan Blanchard, maintainer of an important Python library called chardet, just released the latest &#8220;clean room&#8221; version of the program under the MIT license, replacing its GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). By &#8220;clean room,&#8221; he means&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/06\/ai_kills_software_licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">he used Anthropic&#8217;s Claude <\/a>to rewrite the library entirely. Claude is now listed as a project contributor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A person claiming to be the project&#8217;s original developer, Mark Pilgrim, is not happy. Pilgrim says, &#8220;[The maintainers&#8217;] claim that it is a &#8216;complete rewrite&#8217; is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed code. Adding a fancy code generator into the mix does not somehow grant them any additional rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ai-finds-hidden-bugs-old-code\/\">AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs &#8211; even in decades-old code<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blanchard, however, claims that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dan-blanchard.github.io\/blog\/chardet-rewrite-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">chardet 7 is not derivative of earlier versions.<\/a>&#8221; Did I mention that using AI to modify or clone open-source code will end up in court? &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another problem: Although it appears that AI is much more useful than it used to be for fixing code issues, there&#8217;s still a lot of AI slop out there, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ai-curse-and-blessing-to-open-source-software-developers\/\">open-source project maintainers are drowning in it<\/a>. Just ask Daniel Stenberg, creator of the popular open-source data transfer program <a href=\"https:\/\/curl.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">cURL<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much every open-source project maintainer can tell the same story. In some cases, the AI slop has proven so poisonous that the project itself has died. For example, Python Software Foundation&#8217;s Jannis Leidel, the lead maintainer of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jazzband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">Jazzband<\/a>, closed the program down because the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jazzband.co\/news\/2026\/03\/14\/sunsetting-jazzband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues<\/a>&#8221; drowned the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linus-torvalds-ai-tool-maintaining-linux-code\/\">Torvalds himself, a wary AI user<\/a>, warns that while AI generates code quickly, the results can be &#8220;horrible to maintain.&#8221; He views AI as a tool that boosts productivity, but it doesn&#8217;t replace the need to actually understand what&#8217;s going on in a program when things break. And, I assure you, things will break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/claude-code-auto-mode\/\">How Claude Code&#8217;s new auto mode prevents AI coding disasters &#8211; without slowing you down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Linux Foundation&#8217;s security organizations, the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha-omega.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">Alpha-Omega Project<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/openssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)<\/a>, are addressing this issue by making AI tools available to maintainers at no cost. Kroah-Hartman said of it, &#8220;OpenSSF has the active resources needed to support numerous projects that will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/linux-foundation-announces-12-5-million-in-grant-funding-from-leading-organizations-to-advance-open-source-security-302715783.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">help these overworked maintainers with the triage and processing of the increased AI-generated security reports<\/a> they are currently receiving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While AI is becoming truly useful for open-source developers and maintainers, there are still a lot of legal, coding, and quality issues to address before AI and open-source programming will truly work together in harmony.<\/p>\n<div id=\"pinbox-b2ef2ba4-7e3b-45dd-9336-508fca1e5d60\" class=\"c-shortcodePinbox-carousel\">\n<div class=\"c-listingCarouselHorizontal\">\n<h4 class=\"c-sectionHeading\">Artificial Intelligence<\/h4>\n<p> <!----> <span class=\"c-listingCarouselHorizontal_loadingIndicator\"><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/maybe-open-source-needs-ai\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More open-source developers are finding that, when used properly, AI can actually help current and long-neglected programs. 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