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If someone released an open source software that immediately replaced the software you were working on and you lost your job, what then?

What if that happened across the entire industry overnight?

What if every single time you sat down to write a piece of software, someone immediately produced the Open Source version of it?

That's what people are hoping AI is going to do to us

Why would I support that



> If someone released an open source software that immediately replaced the software you were working on and you lost your job, what then?

WordPress did that to the commercial CMS industry. Linux did that to the commercial Unix industry (RIP, Sun Microsystems).

> That's what people are hoping AI is going to do to us

I think those people are full of crap, and I mostly ignore them.




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