Same. Maybe flags count as -1 after enough?

Will they get there? They rely so much on existing content.

But in such a niche area where the documentation or other solutions often flat out don’t exist how are they supposed to get better through training?

Quite possibly never tested, of maybe only tested their problem and not if it broke anything else.

Not quite possibly. 99.99999% likely.

You could send a comment/open a discussion explain explaining what you did and asking if they would be interested in the feature or a PR.

At this point these could just be gamers who want to play a game and are being annoyed by something not being right.

Maybe they use Claude or whatever and tell it to fix the problem and then just blindly submit it.

I could see people doing that without knowing enough to be able to compile and test the code, ignoring whether it’s good or not. So they just submit it and hope it gets merged to “fix” the problem, having no understanding of what’s involved or how much of a burden that is.

Now imagine a whole bunch of people doing that for a whole bunch of really complex bugs in 75 different games. It’s not like the PlayStation three was a simple system.

It’s starting to feel like we may need to go back to the model where you need to be invited to be able to submit code or PRs. The barrier is just too low now for popular projects.

It’s not just popular projects. On a small utility I have I received a PR that was more lines than the project had. I’m happy to be a good maintainer, but reviewing something that’s effectively an AI rewrite isn’t something I care to review and since I can’t vet it, can’t blindly accept it.

I’m sure it’s all over, I was assuming the smaller projects could deal with the handful of contributions.

Something like a big emulator is very complex and has a LOT of motivated users who aren’t going to be able to make quality submissions.

So they get it in volume where it may be nearly impossible to deal with.

Forks need to be normalized again.

Logistically & brand-wise, they're messy to deal with, but they result in a "filter" of sorts that the original project can pick & choose to upstream back into their code.

> Forks need to be normalized again

No one's going to be trusting forks or new projects for a while. The bar for merely generating new code is now too low to give a meaningful signal. Reputation and longevity will likely be useful metrics, hence the AI pull-requests will continue to be opened against high-reputation projects that have strong brands. Not unlike Ethereums the switch from proof of work to proof if stake

I think some sort of reputation score would make more sense, assuming it’s possible to design one that can’t be easily faked

Perhaps something where you can build a graph of who invited whom so you could prune entire sections that act maliciously. One might even consider it a to be a web of connections which are built on (or torn down by the loss of) trust.

Sounds futuristic. Maybe it's an NFT on an agentic blockchain for deep-sea solar farm mining?

Private torrent trackers apparently do this, and have done so for years.

They're sarcastically describing web-of-trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

Why are they doing that (i.e. being sarcastic)? Who knows.

Because it's by far the dominant strategy for distributed trust-ranking systems out there, with decades of research around it. Might as well look at the forest when realizing that it'd be nice if trees existed.

And I don't think anyone actually trusts any major actor to verify anything, so a fully centralized system is likely out. Otherwise people would be hype about WorldCoin, instead of recognizing it for the stupendously malicious grift that it is.

> Might as well look at the forest when realizing that it'd be nice if trees existed.

Curse of knowledge much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

Only if you're one of today's 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Yeah, and what I'm saying is that I think they pretty blatantly were.

You sound like a terrible person to be around.

How would you even know that?

INDX replaces their existing MMU solution, it will fix that.

I’m not sure why 3D printed parts matter. Thats not why Bambu is cheaper.

The visual design you can argue. Despite being on the Prusa side I do like the more consumer-y visual aesthetic of Bambu machines better.

It’s handy?

Prusa supports the same thing, though they don’t force you to use it and are VERY clear it’s fully optional.

You can go to their model site (Makerworld vs Printables) and if you’re logged in your can slice and start the print right in your browser. It’s a fantastic convenience for someone printing a lot of pre-made models.

Who IS he, could you give a summary?

I don’t recognize the name and for some reason the article never gives a single sentence of context just expecting you to know the same way things expect you to know who Trump or Taylor Swift is.

I even watch a few 3D printer and maker YTers, but I guess not him.

He isn't specifically related to the 3D printing or maker space (in this sense) niches. He got popular at first for repairing Apple devices that Apple Stores claimed were unrepairable or quoted enormous repair fees for. He made videos about those cases, and then transitioned into right-to-repair efforts in general. He also started the Consumer Rights wiki: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

His channel isn't really about 3D printing or maker projects, which is maybe why you have not heard of him.

He has (or had, not sure) an electronics repair shop where he showed laptop and phone repairs on his channel. Recently he is one of the people who push right to repair regulations and consumer rights. Which is probably why he is interested in this case.

I don’t think I watch any channels like that so that certainly explains it. Thank you.

Louis Rossman is right for repair activist and consumer rights advocate. He's an owner of a repair shop, that's mostly focused on fixing macbooks. On Youtube he started by posting repair tutorials, but then his content shifted from repair videos to macbook rants to him lobbying for right to repair law across many US states to covering general anti-consumer practices and offering money and support to people who fight against it.

Bambu won with relentless free giveaways to every YouTuber on the planet, cheap prices, and a consumer friendly looking design.

I don’t think they earned it.

I suspect there is a huge number of people out there who bought them who don’t even know what else exists. They saw a YouTuber advertise one on a video making something and decided to buy that.

> I don’t think they earned it.

1) The people around me who bought a Bambu P1S or P2S weren't swayed by marketing. Some of them even owned Prusa machines. They bought those Bambu printers because they had products they needed printed, and the Bambu got it done while the Prusa failed prints and made them dork around with things.

2) The A1 minis are cheap and look good to consumers; they also work remarkably reliably. Prusa doesn't have anything even remotely in the same class. That is squarely the fault of Prusa.

3) A lot of people who don't know any better can go to Best Buy and buy a Bambu in stock, off the shelf, with a return policy. Again, the fault lies squarely with Prusa.

4) The Bambu printers had fundamentally better components like linear slides and servo motors, for example. Again, fault to Prusa.

Prusa got caught with their pants down and refused to adjust for far too long. Bambu did genuine engineering while Prusa rested on its laurels.

1) Some of them, yes. But also marketing.

3) is marketing and access to capital that Prusa don't have. 4) Prusa is of similar quality in my experience, or both machines have their problems for different reasons. I would need to run a scientific experiment.

There is no argument in which Bambu succeed solely on technical merit alone. Bambu can outspend Prusa due to access to venture capital funding and state support. That is a structural advantage that cannot be easily overcome.

Plus they have a massive labor cost advantage and a government heavily interested in pushing their players into all markets for dominance.

3) you could buy ender 3s for $99 at a Microcenter long before Bambu Labs was around.

Prusa is equally guilty there, I think. Every time I see a Youtuber receiving multiple free Prusa printers, while I continue to save and delay on the high price of getting one myself, I curse them a bit more.

In the last two years I could easily count on one hand the number of Prusas I’ve seen given out. Yeah, it happens. Bambu is straight up sending them to everyone breathing. 3D printer people? Given Bambu. Tinkerers? Bambu. Lego channels? Yeah seriously Bambu. Way outside the traditional maker channels.

I’m not saying no one should give out free printers. But Bambu is carpet bombing YouTube, and they require the videos be turned into Bambu ads to do it. Having to show it multiple times, talk about its great features multiple times, etc. i’ve never seen the script but I’ve seen enough videos have conspicuously similar elements promoting the printer to know it must a condition.

The videos I’ve seen where people get a free XL mention that fact, maybe one other, but that’s about it. It’s not hammered on like Bambu seems to want.

I think you’re trying to rewrite history. The Bambu printers were really, really good for their price point when they came out. It wasn’t looks or giveaways. The printers were seriously much better hardware than what Prusa had at the time.

I was recommending Prusa to everyone who inquired about 3D printers for many years before Bambu launched, so I’m not unfamiliar with the market.

Trying to criticize Bambu for sending a lot of printers to YouTubers is ironic when Prusa has always done the same thing.

Before I bought my first 3D printer from Bambu Labs I spent years researching various printers and every year before Bambu Labs I thought 3D printing was a joke with the sole exception being the Voron 3D printer.

Are you sure you know what's out there? Do you know Mosaic's Pallete 3 Pro or their Array industrial 3D printer?