>>peteth+(OP)
> The fear is that these [AI] tools are allowing companies to create much of the software they need themselves.
AI-generated code still requires software engineers to build, test, debug, deploy, secure, monitor, be on-call, support, handle incidents, and so on. That's very expensive. It is much cheaper to pay a small monthly fee to a SaaS company.
>>deadba+g72
Open source doesn't implement, host, and support itself. Some of these software companies stocks are companies selling open source software.