Tests Are The New Moat | Daniel Saewitz
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As AI becomes better at cloning people's open source work, what ends up becoming most valuable are software contracts, tests, and API surface area. This clashes the incentives of clearly defining your commercialized open source software with protecting it.

It used to be that good documentation, strong contracts, well designed interfaces, and a comprehensive test suite meant users could trust your platform. Help you develop it further. That it was rigid and well designed. And yet, all of these things actually just make it easier for competing companies to re-build your work on their own foundations.

  • codeinaboxOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I wonder if we’ll end up in a situation of open source projects with closed source tests. Though I don’t know how that would work, because how would you contribute a new feature if the tests are closed? 🤔