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notrealyme123last Saturday at 11:51 AM1 replyview on HN

For example:

If it is open source, it will end for in LLMs and will be used in other browser variants (bigger and smaller). Any USP of the code itself will be gone.


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drdaemanlast Saturday at 8:16 PM

What’s this “it” are you talking about, exactly?

If LLMs hoover up removal of auto-shipped telemetry (currently the main selling point) then I’d say that’d be a reason to publish and submit this to every indexer imaginable ASAP ;-) Shame it’s a bit of absence of code so it’s nor really possible to submit anywhere.

And other features are worthy because they’re implemented ideas, not because of their actual implementations. Like programmable buttons or overflow menus - I’m pretty sure there’s no secret sauce there, and it’s extremely unlikely one can just grab some parts of that and move it to a different product - adapting the code from Orion’s codebase would likely take more effort than just implementing the feature anew.

Most code is just some complicated plumbing, not some valuable algorithmic novelty. And this plumbing is all about context it lives in.

The value is usually not in the code, but in the product itself. Some exceptions apply, of course.

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