timokoesters

Hi Neil, fun to see you on HN. I agree with your points and I you summarized it very well as "Ultimately, open source is built on trust".

AI is destroying trust in open source and many other areas and I think this will discourage teams from publishing their source code in the future.

On the other hand, personal connections are becoming even more important, which is unfair to the younger generation and people who don't live near tech hubs.

I thought this is how it works for most software. What are the exceptions to this rule?

Do you have advice for building up this network for graphics development? I'm a Master's student building a custom rendering stack with wgpu and it's difficult to meet people interested in specific skills like rendering.