seems more and more obvious that the bar to open source proven out ideas and apps gets lower and lower as AI gets better

are we at the cusp of an open software renaissance?

exploring. prev: @clankfun, improbable, github. https://ntik.me

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Yes we need to have better standards for usability, try to ignore shiny object syndrome in a time where you can build pretty much anything. 

Maintenance burnout is definitely the issue I am trying to fix with @tipdotmd but we also need people to start seeing the work they put in. 

It’s unfortunately often out of sight, out of mind, so I believe solution is both sides:
- developers need to have a way to get paid (the tip.md button or whatever they choose)
- supporters need to see the work that is put in and subsidise even a small amount if they use that OSS software regularly. “Small streams make big rivers”

Applied AI, databases, data, vibe coding (sic.), open source, community/devrel, remote. 

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Releasing is the easy part. Maintenance is what gets you when there are no aligned incentives. 

Eg. Facebook forked leveldb for RocksDB. Their incentive is to reduce storage costs so they can work on it in the open (oss helps them hire). But requests that don’t help, don’t get attended to… 

Then you have the xz issue, where maintainers just are overworked and underpaid even for critical infrastructure. 

So yes, I expect we’ll see a lot more software, but I do think our evaluation criteria to use it, also has to become higher.

And mini-apps are at the center of it all.

Distribution is king.

You can’t spell “renaissance” without “AI” 😛

Very true, but it also gives rise to max output on idea delivery for those in the open source who knows their onions too.

A study done on chatgpt users(summary is what I'm stating here), shows that the brain activities that had to do with creativity actually increases for those that did their project originally themselves but only used chatgpt for getting latest info, latest way of presenting their work and when compared to those that just gave chatgpt the research to do everything (most of this class can't fully defend their research and stated they don't feel as if they actually own it).

At the UN Open Source Conference, I joined a discussion on how to help beginners start contributing to open source.

Midway through, I asked "Will AI lower barriers to OSS contributions, and how are projects handling these influxes?"

The responses were unexpectedly blunt: