I have also been using GitHub since the early octocat days (2009?). But never saw it as this magical place the blog describes. Consider that we concurrently had

I have also been using GitHub since the early octocat days (2009?). But never saw it as this magical place the blog describes. Consider that we concurrently had access to really magical feeling collaborative open source tools like ruby gems and npm. By comparison, Sourceforge felt way more magical during it's generation. What WAS and IS magical, is git, as a fully distributed, has everything you need but not too much, beautiful repository with easy to use history editing to cultivate sensible code trees. The only magic from GitHub imo was that it made git the defacto standard when we could easily be stuck using svn today. As for his points about AI being against the philosophy of open source, I imagine he will have the ear of RMS and a few other absolutists, but in my personal experience AI assistance has lit a fire of individual empowerment for the little guy wanting to take on big projects so bright that I think it is the single best thing we have left to save open source. It is a new wave of open source, and we can collaborate with 100% of the population instead of 5%.