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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: 0.198s | 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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1. 59nadir ◴[16 Nov 25 20:31 UTC] No.45948146[source]▶
An LLM might be able to replace the majority of the code Sindre Sorhus has put out there, but it's probably a stretch to think that it could replace someone like John Carmack.

Trivial NPM libraries were never needed, but LLMs really are the nail in the coffin for them even when it comes to the most incompetent programmers because now they can literally just ask an LLM to spit out the exact same thing.