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charcircuittoday at 11:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

>All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.

This is not true. Open source is fundamental to how easy users can create software in the LLM era. Users and developers have gained tremendous value. Saying they have gained little is simply false. And it's a good thing to make it possible for big corporations to make things cheaper. It means more efficient resource allocation for society. And for billionaires to turn into trillionaire they have to provide magnitudes more value to society in order to do so. Enabling people to provide trillions of dollars of value to society is a good thing that open source unlocks.


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zelphirkalttoday at 12:20 PM

Rather feels like post LLMs being everywhere, salary levels for developers are dropping left and right. Where did we gain value?

kyprotoday at 11:23 AM

Also theres not multiple trillionaires in the world, and the one trillionaire we have did that largely by innovating and creating new stuff rather than just leveraging existing OSS for profit...