The Building Block Economy

You can argue that 99% of the stuff coming out of these factories is total crap, but you can't argue the sheer quantity of stuff coming out.

If 99% of a pie factory's output is cow pies then the owners should switch industries from food to fertilizer.

The obvious question that follows is what this can mean for commercialization. Closed source, commercial software appears to be at a massive disadvantage. And it is.

Closed-source and commercial ventures have always been at a disadvantage because the software commons can compete on quality and quantity simultaneously. There is no moat.

We have to accept that building blocks and software factories rule everything around us and accept and internalize the consequences of that.

This is learned helplessness. The chatbot has taught the author to not fight against the inevitability of the chatbot.