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4 days agoWhilst I love a foss drama as much as the next person; It’s clear the dev here has shown /some/ humility and self awareness after the fact.
And whilst it doesn’t change his actions, and if it’s true, receiving death threats from people is completely unacceptable. I hope he has reported those to the police and that they are traced and appropriate action taken. (here in the UK, making a death threat over the internet would get you jailed for up to ten years). Being abusive is cowardly, unneccesary and shameful.
Companies are already using AI to generate their own versions of expensive proprietary software (Triggered no doubt by https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/29/1733238/new-claude-model-runs-30-hour-marathon-to-create-11000-line-slack-clone - a project that is entirely closed source)
As prompt engineering gets better and more reliable, why wouldn’t they? And honestly, I’d cheer. Commercial software pricing is so blatantly predatory (We won’t give you a price until you tell us who you are so we can charge you what we think you can pay, rather than what it’s worth) that skipping it entirely is a no brainer if you have some in-house support.