Comment by billy99k

The same could be said about the mass adoption of open source.

Why hire an experienced coder to create project X, when you can just use an open source project and hire cheaper and less experienced coders to make updates? I've been part of many of these conversations with business leaders and management over the years.

Developers have been giving away their work and devaluing their profession for decades and has basically turned it into digital factory work.

It's why I stopped writing software professionally almost a decade ago.

AI is using all of this open source to train and will eventually put you out of a job.