Ask a human first

open-source developers, open-source communities

Open-source communities have [been disappearing](https://mpadge.eu/coding-alone.html) for several years. AI accelerates that by encouraging working in isolation. For open-source software to survive, we need to re-connect communities. I describe the principles of [my "askfirst" software](https://github.com/mpadge/askfirst) which enables developers to broadcast to AI-coding systems that they should be directly contacted by users of those systems to help improve their code. Tools like these will play an important role in ensuring the ongoing sustainability of open-source communities.