@levie: If agents produce the vast majority of software in the future, and they’re most trained on open source software, they w…
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Aaron Levie argues that AI agents trained predominantly on open source software will accelerate open source dominance, since they will naturally be most proficient with tools they were trained on. This dynamic suggests open source could become the default foundation for most future software development.
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If agents produce the vast majority of software in the future, and they’re most trained on open source software, they will inevitably do their best work with those tools.
If you cycle this enough times, it means that open source effectively becomes the dominant software in the future as it’s what everything important gets built with.
This was already the trend in many critical domains, but agents will accelerate this far faster than humans ever could have.
Jerry Tworek (@MillionInt): The unexpected benefit of open source is that it allows model training companies to train on using your software (and optimizing it) for free.
Blender may have just won as a 3D asset creation software because the models will be better at using it than any proprietary ones
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