Open Source Is a Lie. The AI Already Ate Everything It Needed.
The panic over open source code being fed to AI models is built on a myth. The foundational coding knowledge is already baked in — the learning curve flattened long ago. The real value isn’t in raw code examples anymore; it’s in reasoning, testing, and integration. Developers agonizing over closing their repos are defending a vault that was already emptied while the real moat moved to a layer they’re ignoring.