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I firmly believe #AI will be the death of #opensource software. When everyone, instead of supporting the developers of #foss they profit from, chooses to ask #ChatGPT or #Claude for help, what do you expect will happen? 1/2

28/9/26, 4:32 pm0 reposts4 likes

Lorenzo Miniero

@lminiero.it

Consulting and support is how mantainers put food on the table: it was tough before, it's pretty much impossible now (and I've seen it happen already), and yes, projects WILL be abandoned. Is this what we want? Not sure if there's a way back. Any way you look at it, it's bleak. 2/2

Iñaki

@ibc.eurosky.social

If it’s not open source those AI bots cannot help so I don’t think this is the end of Open Source. However it’s true that many users will prefer to ask a bot a question about how to use ANY software rather than paying consultant services. However to survive to that? Mmmmm no idea.

Sergio Garcia Murillo

@murillo2000.bsky.social

It is more convoluted than that. Why use OSS if you can ask claude/codex to rewrite it from scratch?

Iñaki

@ibc.eurosky.social

Ignorant people asking AI to write complex pieces of software (that they won’t even be able to understand) is indeed the best chances for human based super expensive consulting services.

Philipp Hancke

@hcornflower.bsky.social

Oh i heard the results of someone agreeing to "ok, you can try rewriting the webrtc stack". Unsurprisingly it did not go well...

Thomas Edwards

@mpeg2tom.bsky.social

Alternatively, open models could prevail in the long term. www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3

kimi.aiKimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier IntelligenceKimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.