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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: 0.241s | 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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vanschelven ◴[16 Nov 25 19:59 UTC] No.45947932[source]▶
"when an LLM costs less, works faster and makes less mistakes"... indeed, but it doesn't follow at all that it's the fate of all programmers _now_... at least in my experience none of these things are true ATM.
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PunchyHamster ◴[16 Nov 25 20:46 UTC] No.45948251[source]▶
Well, at the very least it costs less than asking intern to look for a lib doing something particular and give some examples... still about as accurate as the intern tho.
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skydhash ◴[16 Nov 25 21:02 UTC] No.45948374[source]▶
How many time has it happened for a company to actually ask an intern for a library?
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1. withinboredom ◴[17 Nov 25 00:06 UTC] No.45949702[source]▶
Um, isn't this what an intern is for? Or do you let them try to contribute to your core project?