A thought I had this morning - what will be the impact of and on open-source software? The OSS model thrived on collaboration, but I see that empowered by tools like many devs now prefer to build one-off tools tailored specifically to their preferences.

Basically, I'm wondering whether devs will lose some of their motivation to contribute to existing projects if they can fairly easily build something similar themselves. Think of the "not invented here" syndrome, OSS edition.

Of course, one can also make the argument that now it's much easier to contribute to existing OSS projects without having to develop deep knowledge in them. Perhaps some projects have benefited from this, but I haven't seen an influx of (AI-generated) contributions to any of my projects. Then again, I haven't seen an LLM that handles Lisp very well. :D

What do you think?

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