However there is a non-scam variation of the idea.
Remember back in the 90s and 00s the SETI initiatives...those collaborative computing initiatives that enlisted thousands of volunteers to process interstellar radio waves, hunt for biologic proteins, etc?
Imagine something similar, but as a new model to build open-source software. A "collab github" idea.
A group of real engineers craft a project plan for some new open source project (ie. Create a new web browser from scratch). They formulate the overall architecture and define each part that needs to be built.
It gets built by people donating their AI time to help build it. So suppose Feature A will take 10 steps to build, perhaps they hire 3x AI agents per step, so 30 total agents are employed. Then a series of QA agents evaluate the code and pick the best, then test cases are written using same approach, also documentation, etc.
Obviously there needs to be a human-in-the-loop to oversee the process but the idea is we could start building things that are currently out of our ability (like a from scratch web browser) by everyones computer pitching in....
Remains to be seen if such approach could work, but would be more useful then the low hanging fruit larps we see now.
Yes, thats all it is.
However there is a non-scam variation of the idea.
Remember back in the 90s and 00s the SETI initiatives...those collaborative computing initiatives that enlisted thousands of volunteers to process interstellar radio waves, hunt for biologic proteins, etc?
Imagine something similar, but as a new model to build open-source software. A "collab github" idea.
A group of real engineers craft a project plan for some new open source project (ie. Create a new web browser from scratch). They formulate the overall architecture and define each part that needs to be built.
It gets built by people donating their AI time to help build it. So suppose Feature A will take 10 steps to build, perhaps they hire 3x AI agents per step, so 30 total agents are employed. Then a series of QA agents evaluate the code and pick the best, then test cases are written using same approach, also documentation, etc.
Obviously there needs to be a human-in-the-loop to oversee the process but the idea is we could start building things that are currently out of our ability (like a from scratch web browser) by everyones computer pitching in....
Remains to be seen if such approach could work, but would be more useful then the low hanging fruit larps we see now.