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The scarcity scarecrows of Open Source

David Heinemeier Hansson · 18 Oct 2022

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Using open source code to enable AI does not undermine open source communities

Because someone can autocomplete a method or even a class, we're going to lose open source communities, where people collaborate on shared software, report bugs, and build on each others' work? How?

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  1. Because someone can autocomplete a method or even a class, we're going to lose open source communities, where people collaborate on shared software, report bugs, and build on each others' work? How?
  2. Isn't this partly why we share our code to begin with? To enable others to remix, reuse, and regenerate with?

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