AI is going to destroy a lot of software companies in a way I haven’t seen talked about yet: it will give CEOs exactly what they ask for.
Before you jump in with “AI produces garbage and isn’t reliable by design,” let me say I agree with you 100%, but for the sake of argument, assume for a moment it could produce a high quality product.
Once a company gets large enough, very often the CEO gets completely removed from how their company actually works. I know I’ve worked at several companies where the job of my boss was to shield me from corporate nonsense so I could make an actually good product. If I and/or my boss were replaced with AI that actually followed the corporate nonsense, the company would go belly-up quite quickly.
I think many CEOs are looking to replace huge fleets of workers with AI they can directly prompt. Even if it worked flawlessly, since they don’t know how their products actually bring value to their customers, they will speed-run torpedoing their company’s place in the market by their own ignorance, ego, and overconfidence.
Yup. Think we’re going to go through a technological dark age for a bit, but hopefully non-shit companies will rise from the ashes. That or I’m gonna have to get used to FOSS everything.
There will be mainstream adoption of Open Source Software but you’re dreaming if you think it will remain free. Marketing alone to get the masses to adopt these options will have a cost that people will be paying for.
Not charging money for your product had NEVER been a requirement in open source. Most people just give out away and get their money from elsewhere because theoretically someone could just download the source code and compile it themselves.
My gut tells me that you’re being satirical. But just in case…
“Free” as in Freedom, not “Free” as in Beer means that you are free to view, use, modify and distribute the underlying source code within the guidelines of whichever Open Source license that software falls under. It in no way implies that it is “Free of Charge/No Cost”
AI is going to destroy a lot of software companies in a way I haven’t seen talked about yet: it will give CEOs exactly what they ask for.
Before you jump in with “AI produces garbage and isn’t reliable by design,” let me say I agree with you 100%, but for the sake of argument, assume for a moment it could produce a high quality product.
Once a company gets large enough, very often the CEO gets completely removed from how their company actually works. I know I’ve worked at several companies where the job of my boss was to shield me from corporate nonsense so I could make an actually good product. If I and/or my boss were replaced with AI that actually followed the corporate nonsense, the company would go belly-up quite quickly.
I think many CEOs are looking to replace huge fleets of workers with AI they can directly prompt. Even if it worked flawlessly, since they don’t know how their products actually bring value to their customers, they will speed-run torpedoing their company’s place in the market by their own ignorance, ego, and overconfidence.
Yup. Think we’re going to go through a technological dark age for a bit, but hopefully non-shit companies will rise from the ashes. That or I’m gonna have to get used to FOSS everything.
The only real option
There will be mainstream adoption of Open Source Software but you’re dreaming if you think it will remain free. Marketing alone to get the masses to adopt these options will have a cost that people will be paying for.
Free as in “Freedom”. not free as in “Beer”.
Not charging money for your product had NEVER been a requirement in open source. Most people just give out away and get their money from elsewhere because theoretically someone could just download the source code and compile it themselves.
But thats OSS. F(ree) / O(open) S(ource) S(oftware)
My gut tells me that you’re being satirical. But just in case…
“Free” as in Freedom, not “Free” as in Beer means that you are free to view, use, modify and distribute the underlying source code within the guidelines of whichever Open Source license that software falls under. It in no way implies that it is “Free of Charge/No Cost”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software