The difficulty of forking and modifying an open-source project has been drastically lowered so I predict we'll see more projects than ever before. But many of them will essentially be duplicates of each other.
replyMy expectation is that those AI primary forks will degenerate quickly. Maintaining OS requires a lot of judgement, direction, agents tend to turn softeare into big pile of disconnected features.
replyI have many such forks myself. Some are totally different from upstream now, and yet improvements that upstream makes are straightforwardly portable. I just point Opus 5.5 at the repo; describe what I want; et voila.
replyIn the past, communities were required to produce the rest of these things. Now we live in an era of unprecedented free software. Soon no one will even be able to lock us out of firmware and all software will be free as in free speech to all.
> - Any (super)intelligence caches work
> - Any (super)intelligence _wants to create stable abstractions_
replyThis is a higher-order rephrasing of the "intelligence is compression" argument.
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