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2026-04-03 16:11 UTC

@isagalaev@mastodon.social @chrisjrn@social.coop There have been plenty of high-profile rewrites over the years in Open Source too. I remember when CORBA was the key to sustainable architecture for GNOME, or should I say, the GNU Network Object Model Environment.

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@isagalaev@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 16:15

@kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in @chrisjrn@social.coop oh, for sure. I wasn't implying open-source never does rewrites. I'm saying that long-burn projects mostly make sense for open-source.

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@chrisjrn@social.coop 2026-04-03 16:15

@kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in Yup. For what it's worth, less likely in frameworks and infrastructural libraries than end user-facing product (due to lithification; see point 3 in thread). I think that's true in the proprietary space, too. @isagalaev@mastodon.social

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@kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in 2026-04-03 16:24

@isagalaev@mastodon.social @chrisjrn@social.coop The corporate world has embraced LLMs for the same reason they embraced cloud (outsourced sysadmin/neteng), and any tool that allows them to either outsource or reduce their highly-paid staff. While some companies are looking at this as a way to increase the productivity of their current staff, most are trying to figure out how to match current productivity with fewer people (and ultimately with less expensive, less trained people). Luddites all over again.

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