Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline
Saoud Rizwan argues that the open source community has died—not because code has disappeared, but because AI-generated pull requests and security bugs have made it impossible to maintain projects.
Projects like Zig, curl, and tldraw are now closing contributions or banning AI entirely. What survives instead is "open weights," meaning open AI models that companies can use themselves. Rizwan compares this to Open Compute, where Facebook opened its datacenter designs, the industry standardized on them, and everyone—including Facebook—saved billions. He urges American AI labs to release open models before the world becomes dependent on foreign alternatives.
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