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Author suggests using AI to build FOSS alternatives to SaaS

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The author suggests that if individuals are using AI tools to assist with coding, they should also consider leveraging AI to develop free and open-source software (FOSS) alternatives to replace "enshittified" Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. While acknowledging the difficulty of creating exact replacements, the author believes that for individual use cases, building FOSS alternatives with AI assistance is a more practical application than simply using AI to write code for proprietary services. AI

IMPACT Suggests a novel application of AI for developing FOSS alternatives to proprietary software.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the application of AI tools.

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Author suggests using AI to build FOSS alternatives to SaaS

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    If you are subscribing to an AI product to write code, but not writing code to replace enshittified SaaS products with a FOSS product - why not? If I were all-i

    If you are subscribing to an AI product to write code, but not writing code to replace enshittified SaaS products with a FOSS product - why not? If I were all-in on AI (I'm not), I'd be using it to fight fire-with-fire and replace enshittified SaaS products. Not to trivialize the…

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