2026-10-29 21:50 UTC
What kills me is that this is what open source was supposed to enable. Need to solve a problem? Probably 99% of the work has been done to solve it. Just import the necessary Python library or npm package. You don’t need to really know how it works. No need to reinvent the wheel.
So we got the same outcome except the libraries were stolen and put behind a paywall.
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@crystalwalrus@programming.dev 2026-10-31 06:52
It was also about reproducibility. The ability to bootstrap from almost nothing (of course we can’t fab our own CPUs but with riscv we’re closer to the silicon than we’ve ever been). Software could always be brought back. And now the reliance is too much on closed source ecosystems. And open weights are about as open as an “open exe”. Yes the bits are there but they are almost meaningless, not reproducible.