threepointone: If intelligence gets too cheap to meter, repos will replace docs and specs
threepointone · x · 2026-10-06
Responding to talk of "the death of open source," threepointone argues: if the premise of "infinite intelligence, too cheap to meter, available instantly" holds (he's skeptical), open source will shift from publishing knowledge, ideas, and specs to maintaining repositories that people contribute to directly. Contributing to those repos stays hard — and if it ever becomes easy, "humanity's in trouble." Issues will simply become discussions mixing broad brush strokes with nitpicks on specifics.
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