Reddit take: open weights and reverse engineering are dissolving Big Tech moats
RealisticDonkey9302 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A Reddit post argues AI is shifting power from corporations to individuals: corporate apps get reverse-engineered and open-sourced, emulators improve, and working alternatives to proprietary software like Photoshop exist. Unrestricted open-weight models let people fully own software or build whatever they want, shrinking corporate moats. The author extrapolates that with better reverse engineering and recompiling, even Windows could eventually be open-sourced.
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