[codespin]

What I see as broken is the expectation that dev tools and the entire dev stack should be provided for free. It manifests as only using "open source" tools and everything in this blog post applies.

As a developer I both expect tools and libraries to be free and have been burned by this as someone working on developer tools and as an open source maintainer on my personal projects.

The frustrating part to me is that this doesn't apply to apps, saas apps, services, or a lot of AI/ML related things. Most developers expect to make money off those things while at the same time demanding everything they used to build it be free because it's just code and they love open source. It feels unfair, and in that way I agree, open source is broken, or at least unsustainable for small projects long term.