this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
-16 points (26.5% liked)

Open Source

44307 readers
546 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Maybe I'm seeing shadows in the clouds, but it seems like AI means a lot more people have been building open source tools.

I'm an AI skeptic, but I'm wondering if this can help undermine some of the shit software industry. Most AI tools sold by companies have an open source alternative.

I'm thinking that maybe AI will accidentally allow the private person to build free tools and reduce the market value of sold tools.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

This is such a broad topic, that we need some qualifiers to focus. Ai tools in servers from big companies is an absolute no. I am experimenting for fun with local tools on my hardware only. Then there is a huge difference in generative Ai tools that generate code, assist tools to in example translate human languages, or if you use it to ask questions in example. So there is a huge difference in how, for what, and what you actually use Ai.

Ai tools can be useful, under the right circumstances and conditions. But it comes with the problem that they mostly have scraped data without consent and ignoring the licenses. And for server based Ai you also give up your privacy and you need internet connection at all times; loosing control. Then there is this generating code thing. If you don't program yourself and don't understand and generate lots of code, then it will be spaghetti code, with hallucinations and you don't understand every detail to check it.