AI as the killer of open source: why agents don't need shared code at all
Pascallisch · x · 2026-10-22
Emil Kirkegaard argues that open source's value — saving humans from writing everything from scratch — evaporates once AIs can write an entire new framework in hours, while its cost (attackers fully knowing the code and eventually finding exploits) remains. The same logic applies to languages: humans use Python because it's easy for humans; from an AI perspective, one could just write a new language per service. Physicist Pascallisch (Sabi) reposted with 'Likely true', endorsing the counterintuitive take.
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