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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by nazgulnarsil on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:18PM (#47442725)
it never made sense to have devs all over the world doing the same task with tiny variation. Centralization was inevitable. LLMs might have been a step change but the trajectory was already set.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by Zopieux on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:37PM (#47443860)
The exact opposite has started: every single developer with an LLM subscription now has 45 variations of any foundational tool and library, to cater to their weird use-case, because it was easier for the LLM to just modify it rather than adapting to it. Almost nobody upstreams such improvements (or they are too niche anyway).

The ecosystem will be this way for a while, if not the new normal.

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by cyanydeez on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:44PM (#47445788)
I see it as:LLMs will solve the problems they create. They'll 10x your eccentric layout, modularity, monolith; they'll multiply your anti-DRY or try to make everything DRY. It's largescale copy/paste/find/replace in a glorious crescendo of idiosyncratic programming. `
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by nazgulnarsil on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:40PM (#47469277)
the previous normal lasted decades, this one will last a year.