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Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?

28 points · 61 comments · albertoarena

  1. someguyiguess · · focus · HN ↗
    I’ve often wondered the opposite. The number of pieces of software I used to pay for that I was able to replace with software I’ve built using agents is nearing double digits. I wonder how much longer people will need to pay huge software companies instead of just collaborate with a few other folks using AI and build their own better version.
    1. piker · · focus · HN ↗
      As a developer (it sounds like), you were probably never even a drop in the bucket dumped into the ocean of the proprietary software market. Most people don’t want to change their own oil.
      1. le-mark · · focus · HN ↗
        > Most people don’t want to change their own oil.

        Changing oil is easy, it’s disposing of the oil that’s hard and why I don’t change my own oil and haven’t in years.

        1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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