AI enabled dev tools like Copilot, trained on a vast open source corpus, signal further changes in what an oss community means. In addition to direct code contributions and chats, a lot of sharing could be mediated by ML algorithms in future.
The framing of a tension between user growth and contributor growth is an especially good frame in my view. Having worked with a software development team that works to leverage a mix of open source along with bespoke code I see how the value propagates so pervasively and how such may be a very good analogy and predictor for how this mode of collaboration and idea sharing may evolve and manifest.
AI enabled dev tools like Copilot, trained on a vast open source corpus, signal further changes in what an oss community means. In addition to direct code contributions and chats, a lot of sharing could be mediated by ML algorithms in future.
The framing of a tension between user growth and contributor growth is an especially good frame in my view. Having worked with a software development team that works to leverage a mix of open source along with bespoke code I see how the value propagates so pervasively and how such may be a very good analogy and predictor for how this mode of collaboration and idea sharing may evolve and manifest.