
AI Has Broken Open Source
Open source has never been better... and worse, at the same time.
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Open source is going through it right now. Projects aren't taking any more contributions. Entire platforms are banning mostly AI-written projects. Companies are completely leaving open source and going closed source. And these are the people who love open source the most.
So I went through everything that's happened just this year — what's actually going on, why it's happening, and where I've landed on all of it.
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Open source is going through it right now. Projects aren't taking any more contributions. Entire platforms are banning mostly AI-written projects. Companies are completely leaving open source and going closed source. And these are the people who love open source the most.
So I went through everything that's happened just this year — what's actually going on, why it's happening, and where I've landed on all of it.
Sources:
A portion of this video is sponsored by WorkOS.
If you're a developer, sign up to my free newsletter Dev Notes ? https://www.devnotesdaily.com/
If you're a student, checkout my Notion template Studious: https://notionstudent.com
Don't know why you'd want to follow me on other socials. I don't even post. But here you go.
?? GitHub: https://github.com/forrestknight
? Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/forrestpknight
? LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forrestpknight
? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forrestpknight
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