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which is why am I happy to launch the first AI-first meeting scheduling app, yes it costs 5000 USD/month but we have almost completely eliminated any use of code in our application, offering enterprise quality security by having Claude (TM) Opus (TM) 4.8 (TM) directly reply to all HTTPS requests - end to end AI driven agentic software is finally here.
No-one cares if a product is closed-source, a lot of people do care if a product is open source, and really unless a product is truly unique (almost no product is) that is often the main selling point.
there seems to be a certain type of person that thinks if an LLM can generate content faster than means it's better, said belief appears to also be linked with thinking that if text is long it should be broken down so it's easier to understand, it would seem a bit contradictory considering LLM generated code is usually more difficult to correctly review than code a human wrote, but at the core of it might be a poor understanding of systems, those bullet-points are going to get skimmed over or read but not understood, not everything can be easy.
I mean that's fair enough but I don't think one person keeping their code closed source really changes all that much. And it depends on what your software does, no-ones out there really replacing (while actually saving any money at least) anything complicated with vibecoding, and GPL violations already happened before.
have you like used AI? it's barely usable for anything other than grunt work. You actually have to tell the truth for the cynical but correct trope to work. If it's about now might be time to re-calibrate the hype, if it's about the future, well then there the worst case scenario is far worse than the worst case scenario cynics and LLM company CEOs talk about, human extinction is really the medium bad case if they actually manage to create AGI.
buying into the marketing I see? Might as well making stealing easier just cause they will probably manage to steal everything in the end is an interesting thought.
Like yes if the AI thing works out the theft will be retroactively okay because the people that stole will now be the ruling class, but assuming AI models will write good code one day and do all work, when that hasn't happened yet is just repeating corporate propaganda while presuming being convinced you are some sort of cynical truth tell that's telling it how it is.