Comment by ossa-ma
16 days ago
Like he said a lot of OSS works on tiered features, most is free, premium at a premium.
But the main issue is that doesn't work anymore if LLMs have been trained entirely on the free and can generate the premium with ease.
> generate the premium with ease
I don’t think this will be possible for many open core projects. Often the premium features are the more complex and difficult ones. If you could generate those you don’t need the project at all anymore you can just generate the whole thing. Of course that is the wet dream of VCs and would make programmers completely obsolete but I don’t think it’s realistic (at least not anytime soon)
Part of me says that that could be handled with licenses, though for that to work the code probably no longer qualifies as open source either.
Also, I'd guess, the sort of people who are comfortable with asking an LLM to build the premium features are, uh, morally flexible enough to not care about licenses in the first place.