Ask HN: Are you hesitant to open source your project because LLMs may steal it?
5 busymom0 4 6/21/2025, 3:10:17 PM
Is anyone hesitant nowadays to release their code as open source because they don't want it to be stolen to train LLMs?
I am wondering if my hesitancy is rational or not.
And if it’s open source under Apache/MIT license I could care less about people getting snippets from my code.
But then it fails and I make it open source to add to my portfolio.
It's up to you. Stallman argued that the greatest value code has is it's utility to others. The "holy grail endgame" of open source is zero-margin software production that completely displaces the need to generate value with software. If AI pushes us closer to that world, then I can sleep well feeding it code.