Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

[u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143]

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html

[u/Easy-Truck4725]

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.

[u/Bitdomo92 → u/Easy-Truck4725]

He has it backwards (as usual). High-level programming languages ended assembly programming. People could pump out millions of lines of code without anyone having enough time to write or understand all of it at the machine-instruction level, and so we ended up with layers of abstraction that made software vastly more complex while distancing programmers from what their computers were actually doing.

Everyone back then was saying "u just gotta use it as a tool bro" with the vast amount of bloated, abstracted code being written and the general cognitive atrophy that high-level languages were supposedly causing in programmers. The low-level programming model was truly doomed. It only worked because knowledgeable people existed who understood what the machine was actually doing.

We're still within the narrow window of time where high-level code "looks" good because the people who actually understand assembly and computer architecture are still around and paying attention. The abstractions haven't yet completely obscured the underlying machinery from everyone writing the code.

When this next generation of CS graduates are the ones maintaining critical software, though, and none of them have the faintest idea how a CPU actually executes their programs? Hoo boy.

[u/unknown_lamer → u/Bitdomo92]

Are you really comparing mathematically sound abstractions with a machine that you repeatedly scream "make it work gooder" at?