Commenter questions whether open source's survival depends on continuous new material
4 Sep 22 9:19 AM · 1d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
A commenter raised the concern that if new open source projects are no longer written, AI agents will become stale, unable to train on fresh best practices, making the ongoing health of open source critical to AI itself.
“If we stop creating new projects, may be AI won't have enough base to do the same and the open-source would necessary.”
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This is the biggest opportunity in open source I've seen in my lifetime. I bet you in three years we'll have more and better open source libraries than ever before.For example, a few months ago I was looking to build a license detection tool, and within a few weeks with the help of Claude built a tool that was 20x better than the best open source…
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I told AI to create and editor just like Sublime (my editor for the last decade) and it did in less than 10 minutes. File tree, multi tabs, multi carets, syntax highlighting, code snippets, everything I need in an editor (except LSP for now, will be added in v2)I haven't used Sublime this week, it works as expected and I can't be happierOh, and it…
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What does it mean for open source to survive? Exactly what software are we talking about here?I don't know about everyone else's experiences, but the AI agent that I use every day at work would rather install a tool or library than spend tokens recreating software that already exists out there. As such, the argument doesn't make much sense to me…
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Agents replacing today open-source doesn't means they can do the same in the future. In first place we must all understand that AI is being feeded with existing projects. If we stop creating new projects, may be AI won't have enough base to do the same and the open-source would necessary.
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