Open source didn't get less important because AI can write the code
Independentgoats · reddit · 2026-10-04
Sharing a groundcover blog post arguing that AI-generated code makes open source more, not less, important: models are trained on open-source corpora, engineers need real codebases to verify AI output, and as the cost of writing code approaches zero, trust, auditability, and maintainable shared infrastructure — open source's core contributions — become the scarce resources.
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