Dev laments: a week of problem-solving is no longer worth an OSS project in the AI era
nptacek · x · 2026-11-13
Developer tenobrus reflects: he spent a week building something neat that solved a real problem — a year ago it might have become a thriving OSS project or even a company, but today there's no point even discussing it, since anyone hitting the same problem can solve it with a few tokens. A widely resonant take on how AI is eroding software moats and the incentive to build in public.
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