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by dabei 1173 days ago
The decision to open source is surprising at first glance. But it makes a lot of sense. With the greatly enhanced coding productivity, the ROI for tweaking open source tools is quite high. This puts closed source tools at a significant disadvantage in terms of customization. They are a little late to the AI coding assistant market, this move enables them to capture market share rapidly and slow down the competitors in building up data moat.