And that’s probably the crux of the split among free software people on this matter: are our development efforts made in a vacuum?
It’s not new: whether, for instance, to use BitKeeper for Linux development led to similar debates.
The difference here is that LLMs are not even “just a tool” in the sense BK was: the lock-in is going to be much deeper, in our organizations and in our brains. LLMs threaten the ideal of knowledge sharing and the social fabric we’ve built.
Ludovic Courtès
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2026-08-30 20:27:18 UTC
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