Comment by mikestorrent
3 months ago
I think, if anything, in this age of AI coding we should see a resurgence in true open-source projects where people are writing code how they feel like writing it and tossing it out into the world. The quality will be a mixed bag! and that's okay. No warranty expressed or implied. As the quality rises and the cost of AI coding drops - and it will, this phase of $500/mo for Cursor is not going to last - I think we'll see plenty more open source projects that embody the spirit you're talking about.
The trick here is that people may not want to be coding MinIO. It's like... just not that fun of a thing to work on, compared to something more visible, more elevator-pitchy, more sexy. You spend all your spare time donating your labour to a project that... serves files? I the lowly devops bow before you and thank you for your beautiful contribution, but I the person meeting you at a party wonder why you do this in particular with your spare time instead of, well, so many other things.
I've never understood it, but then, that's why I'm not a famous open-source dev, right?
What makes you so sure that AI coding price will drop ? There are many reasons to think otherwise.
People do not generally want to build software to impress at parties, that is a very weird flex, even if you are trolling.
Yap, published already a few ( I hope) useful plugins where I basically don't care what you do with it. Coded in a few days with AI and some testing.
Already a few more ideas I want to code :)
But this might create the problem image models are facing, AI eating itself...
you mean... like Linux? or gcc?