Comment by Vinnl

The relative worthlessness of source code can easily be seen when the situation is flipped around. When you're told you can look at e.g. a competitor's source code, some open source code somewhere, or a prototype that a colleague already built during a proof-of-concept, that will almost never make you go much faster.

Meanwhile, I think organisations underestimate the cost of attempting to keep source code secret. It adds friction to almost every step of the development process, compared to not worrying about whether your build logs or repositories are publicly accessible, even if they're not open source.