> Instead of infrastructure being more easily shared with the collective, or valued enough to build a business, now companies can tailor even major infrastructure to their own needs, and avoid all that coordination.

Large companies have always done this. Tons of early 2010s open source projects came out of reimplementing white papers from closed-source Google projects.

It’s also the major downside of this kind of thing. Once someone gets acclimated to how things are done at a large company with custom tools, it’s not always easy to switch to another process, especially a simpler one. There are tons of stories about FAANG engineers joining a startup and being useless.

There’s real value in having consistent tools across an industry. It makes hiring and training easier. Even if you’re convinced that a LLM could crank out a payroll or ordering system that’s perfect for your org, you still have to train the accountants and admin assistants to use it. And you’ve now become the customer support.

The bar is lower with version control, but it’s still more friction than git + GitHub + a well-known workflow.