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You make a lot of assumptions here. Like: I've never bragged about how easy coding is. I've never glorified bootcamps. I've never treated open source work as baseline.

The real undermine that is happening now is AI replacing Jr Developers and interns.

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Who fueled AI, though? If not those millions of lines of free, well-documented, commented code just sitting on GitHub, contributed for “fun” to show off work. Almost no other profession would do that, especially not in their free time.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers would never give away years of their expertise for free. Developers did. The rest will be history.

It's a sure bet that someone has scanned West's Legal Forms to fine tune an LLM. Maybe add some JSON specific to West's field names. Et voila.

I don't buy into the gloom-and-doom. AI will change stuff, sure. Just like ARPANET and Internet changed stuff. Just like telephones changed stuff. etc.

> If not those millions of lines of free, well-documented, commented code

Feel free to stop using Linux then, and all the server that rely on it to send you this HN page. Stop using HN now if you're serious about what you said.

> Almost no other profession would do that, especially not in their free time.

Dude, StackOverflow exists. Reddit, Quora, Facebook, all exist. You don't need to make up base lies to justify your crackpot tirade against open source developers.

We deal with other professions on a daily basis. A lawyer or a financial advisor drops a single tip or piece of advice, even casually, and someone could be writing them a check for hundreds or thousands. A painter sells a single brushstroke or sketch and it’s still cash. They guard every scrap of knowledge because it’s literally money in their pocket.

That's part of my point here. Where's lawyers' StackOverflow? Where's financial advisors' Quora?

https://law.stackexchange.com/

https://quant.stackexchange.com/

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