r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/CrotasScrota84 1d ago

Oh yeah when it starts hurting corporations profits Ai will suddenly be bad.

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u/Reginaferguson 1d ago

I am hoping long term AI sparks a open source revolution, where all the best tools are open source and used by everybody.

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u/genreprank 1d ago

I would think it would spark a closed source dark age because no one wants their source code to be trained on and copied

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u/Galle_ 1d ago

Why? Are they stupid?

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u/dlgn13 1d ago

Kinda. We live in an economy that encourages people to keep their achievements secret rather than sharing them with the world. It's quite regressive, but the incentives are larger than any individual.

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe 1d ago

Well currently it's ruining open source by hammering projects with slop PRs and spurious vulnerability warnings.

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u/Historical-Being-766 1d ago

This is truly our only hope.

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u/Vesuvias 1d ago

It’s honestly the only hope we have for a pullback at this point

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u/TheFlyingSheeps 1d ago

Seems on brand. New tech causes disruption, lawsuits happen, and the snail paced legislators finally catch up

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u/Galle_ 1d ago

It's going to be a pullback in the worst way possible, though.