On the different funding and maintainership models in FOSS:
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One fun way of testing new AI models: take an existing codebase you have and just ask them to "review it and fix bugs".
In principle this should find more issues over time as models get smarter. I've found a few bugs this way at least.
The games console market is fascinating: there's incentive to *not* provide upgraded models.
You want the guarantee that a game for $X just works on any $X purchased.
E.g. the Switch OLED has a bigger screen, and a better CPU than the original, but it's downclocked to match the original Switch's CPU.
Are there any FOSS licensees that explicitly allow people to train AI models on the source code?
This seems like a useful addition, and there's already precedent with the "classpath exception" for the GPL.
