alt Hacker NewsDoesn't feel particularly different to me, I've been publishing my side projects as open source code on GitHub for over a decade.
The effort required to adapt them has dropped, but I've always exposed them to being adapted.
Doesn't feel particularly different to me, I've been publishing my side projects as open source code on GitHub for over a decade.
The effort required to adapt them has dropped, but I've always exposed them to being adapted.
> Doesn't feel particularly different to me
> The effort required to adapt them has dropped
AI is an entirely different situation because the effort required to copy has dropped by multiple orders of magnitude. You used to be able to build in the open without worrying about copycats because the vast majority of people didn’t want to spend the effort. Now (with AI), even someone with the slightest, most fleeting whim can copy your work.
It’s great that you’re open to being adapted. There’s nothing wrong with that. But if you’re not open to having your ideas outright taken, then it’s not safe to build in the open any longer.