alt Hacker NewsNo, the free software movement wants that the source code of the software you use be available to you to modify it if you wish. AI does not necessarily do that.
No, the free software movement wants that the source code of the software you use be available to you to modify it if you wish. AI does not necessarily do that.
AI makes the entirety of the software engineering profession available to you. All you have to do is ask the right way, and you can build in days what once took months or years.
Decompiling and re-engineering proprietary code has never been easier. You almost don't even need the source code anymore. The object code can be examined by your LLM, and binary patches applied.
Closed source is no longer the moat it was, and so keeping the source code to yourself is only going to hurt you as people pass you over for companies who realize this, and strive to make it easier for your LLM to figure their systems out.