Vouch | Hacker News

kept by eddie feb 09

Mitchell Hashimoto's Vouch project proposes a web-of-trust system for GitHub to combat low-quality AI-generated code slop.

GitHub - mitchellh/vouch: A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.
Vouch is a trust management system requiring users to be vouched for before contributing, designed to filter low-quality AI-generated contributions in open-source projects.
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Devtools must be open source
The article argues that developer tools should be open source to ensure transparency, trust, and long-term viability, warning that proprietary devtools risk becoming unreliable or extractive over time.
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