Comment by dimes
2 days ago
It’s not a fear. It’s reality. It’s literally happening on HN right now.
Take this game, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729573
2 days ago
It’s not a fear. It’s reality. It’s literally happening on HN right now.
Take this game, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729573
I read simonw's comment not as dismissing the reality, but rather highlighting the harm of discouraging sharing.
The slurping can be both real and the induced reluctance to share a harm.
That's not an AI company "slurping up data", that's someone using AI tools to accelerate their own personal clone of a project.
I think you're missing the point. The game (no pun intended?) has changed. Working with the garage door up has become a liability.
Doesn't feel particularly different to me, I've been publishing my side projects as open source code on GitHub for over a decade.
The effort required to adapt them has dropped, but I've always exposed them to being adapted.
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no we got something better out of it
Why is that a bad thing? Person 1 built a thing, and then someone came along and made it better? It's a game, so better is subjective, but should ideas only ever come from Person 1, while everyone else just gazes upon them with slack jawed awe, unable to contribute?