The foundation behind PHP's urgent fix has one full-time employee.
PHP Foundation director Elizabeth Barron told Reuters on Friday that she is its only full-time staff member. Proposed code changes nearly doubled in a year, and she says AI has added to the maintainers' workload. The foundation lives on donations and grants, and Barron says PHP is badly under-funded.
Why it mattersAI now finds bugs and helps write code faster than volunteers can check it. The websites you use depend on a few people keeping up.
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