Open source and free software was the largest transfer of wealth in the form of techne freely from the craftspeople to the business people.

Knowing how to write a database could make one fabulously rich. Now the person who knows how to make and promote a simple crud app backed my MySql becomes the rich one, while the db people beg for donations.

Linux killed Sun/Solaris and SGI Irix

Developers have voluntarily moved further down in the chain of value - now just describing themselves as primarily a business liaison who can translate to code. All the computer whispering necessary to do all this is freely available and digestible for free.

LLMs are just the expected endpoint of this.

Beautiful. I like the displacement of human labor.