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The fate of "small" open source

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295 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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cynicalsecurity ◴[16 Nov 25 19:50 UTC] No.45947861[source]▶
He almost got it right. It's not just the fate of small open source. It's the fate of all programmers now. Why hire a programmer when an LLM costs less, works faster and makes less mistakes (OP compliments better error handling, read the article).

Unless you are a product owner, you have paying clients that love you and your product and won't simply ditch it in favour of a new clone, you are really screwed.

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RhythmFox ◴[16 Nov 25 19:54 UTC] No.45947886[source]▶
He also points out a pointless type check in a type checked language...

Your name is very accurate I must say.

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1. jazzypants ◴[16 Nov 25 20:07 UTC] No.45947985[source]▶
That type check is honestly not pointless at all. You can never be certain of your inputs in a web app. The likelihood of that parameter being something other than an arraybuffer is non-zero, and you generally want to have code coverage for that kind of undefined behavior. TypeScript doesn't complain without a reason.