katMar 5

Re: genAI killing open source, one strategy I've been pursuing lately is closed-sourcing everything going forward, but forming human relationships with other developers. I then literally just... send them code for stuff that would help their projects, from my own codebases, and tell them they can feel free to integrate it without owing me anything.

I've been feeling pretty good about that strategy so far. I like that it places my human relationships first, without exposing my work to either corporate exploitation or LLM mining (for later corporate exploitation).

Show threadkatMar 5
turns out you can just tell people "hey I have a small private package to do this thing that you're struggling with, do you want me to just add you to the private repo so you can reference or copy it wholesale? Just credit me."
Show threadcrypticcelery 🔜 EH23Mar 5
@zkat at first I was gonna say something like “but that will be hard to discover, especially to people new to the field/a topic or not well connected (yet)”. And while I do think some of that applies, it also sounds like an opportunity, like you say, for fostering community (not like search engines are really good these days anymore).
I love the idea of more chatty hubs around this where like minds find people in need / with a solution lying around, whilst excluding slopmongers.
Show threadPhie Lux 

@crypticcelery @zkat I had the same thought. This sounds like it'll make things harder to find without scaling it up. But not scaling up in any technical sense. And it turns out scaling up human relationships is called "community".

Where is this community and how can I become a part of it?

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