alt Hacker NewsI'm convinced that LLMs results in all software needing to be open source (or at the very least source available).
In future everyone will expect to be able to customise an application, if the source is not available they will not chose your application as a base. It's that simple.
The future is highly customisable software, and that is best built on open source. How this looks from a business perspective I think we will have to find out, but it's going to be fun!
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I'm convinced of the opposite. I think a lot more software will be closed source so that an LLM cannot reproduce it from its training data for free.
> In future everyone will expect to be able to customise an application, if the source is not available they will not chose your application as a base. It's that simple.
This seems unlikely. It's not the norm today for closed-source software. Why would it be different tomorrow?
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Why do you think customization can only viably done via changing the code of the application itself.
I think there is room for closed source platforms that are built on top of using LLMs via some sort of API that it exposes. For example, iOS can be closed source and LLMs can develop apps for it to expand the capabilities of one's phone.
Allowing total customization by a business can allow them to mess up the app itself or make other mistakes. I don't think it's the best interface for allowing others to extend the app.