Developers question competitive advantage of sharing setups publicly
3Sep 17 12:00 PM · 9d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 6
A 20-year industry veteran argues that in an AI-driven landscape, proprietary workflows have become a form of job security and competitive differentiation, making public sharing of setups counterproductive. Other commenters echo skepticism about why one would expose their workflow details.
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“In the age of AI, developer productivity and job security will involve your proprietary workflow. It no longer makes sense to share your knowledge with the world.”
As always with smallish tools/services like these whipped up with an LLM, I find there's more value in seeing the "source code", i.e. the prompt itself.Turns out it's quite useful in this instance, and I just made a small couple of tweaks to get a summary of my own workflow.FWIW, this is what I modified it to:Help me share how I work with AI with…
It'd be useful to see "approx monthly cost" or something similar. I love seeing other people's setups, but the first post I clicked on describes at least $400/mo in subscription plans.
