Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline
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Why it matters
It connects a live supply-chain risk to a shift in where open source actually survives, with cost and quality numbers attached. Relevant to anyone choosing models or accepting AI-authored contributions.
Key quotes
“GitHub is effectively an archive of SLOP PRs and issues and security reports.”
Saoud Rizwan
“When I say that open source is dead, I mean some parts of it—like the community—it's just not worth cultivating anymore.”
Saoud Rizwan
“They're essentially going to subsidize this until they have as many engineers dependent on their tooling as possible... and then inevitably the price gouging.”
Saoud Rizwan
“Before we know it, all this infrastructure that we're investing in could be built on foreign models that take the world by a storm.”
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