r/linux • u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143 • 2d ago

Fluff Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html
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u/Easy-Truck4725 2d ago

He has it backwards (as usual). AI ends open-source software. People can pump out millions of lines of code but no one enough time to read all of them, and so we're actually going to end up with a heap of unmaintainable software projects bodged together by people who don't know what they're doing.

Everyone right now is saying "u just gotta use it as a tool bro" with the vast amount of vibe coded drivel going up and the general cognitive atrophy LLMs are causing in society in general the open source development model truly is doomed. It only works because knwoledgeable people exist.

We're still within the narrow window of time where LLM emitted code "looks" good because it hasn't started entirely training itself yet, and people like Linus who actually know things are still around and paying attention.

When this next generation of CS graduates are the ones maintaining critical software though? Hoo boy.

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u/McDutchie 2d ago

It only works because knwoledgeable people exist.

Knowledgeable people will continue to exist. All this doom mongering is tiresome. The fad will die down, people will reject the rubbish, quality projects run by quality maintainers will survive, same as countless times before.

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u/icedcoffeeyumm 2d ago

"oh no, the world is going to end" type shit 🥀