I’m genuinely unsure how to assess the current state of open source. Many projects have been AI-assisted in one way or another. Meanwhile, a large number of people use AI to generate code indiscriminately and publish it as open source. As a result, using open-source contributions as a proxy for someone’s engineering ability has become increasingly unreliable. In addition, many developers now prefer to build their own solutions rather than rely on whether an open-source alternative exists. And for many small open-source projects, frankly, I hesitate to use them—given how prevalent malicious software has become, if it’s feasible to build it in-house, I’d rather do that.