What Thorsten Ball thinks about open source

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Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.

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1. 19 Sept 2026

   Our readingOpen source in its current form no longer makes sense because artificial eyeballs now fulfill the "enough eyeballs" principle for finding bugs.

   Their wordsOpen source in its current form doesn’t make sense anymore. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs

   ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 4th of 15 in this piece