> it is not apparent whether open source can even replicate it because with AI, unlike in the past, time and skill is no longer directly fungible with money. I

> it is not apparent whether open source can even replicate it because with AI, unlike in the past, time and skill is no longer directly fungible with money. Indeed. The creator of LuaJIT is only a single, very skilled, person with a desktop computer. People like Fabrice Bellard can produce gigantic amounts of FLOSS source code. Yes, those are only examples, but people with their skills and motivations to build FLOSS software will need access to lots of money in order to be able to build ML models.