[CamperBob2]

Essentially nothing we do as programmers is special or unique. Whatever we're doing, there's a 99.999% chance that somebody, somewhere did it first, just in a different context. The key point is, now we can avoid duplicating that person's effort. I don't see the downside.

Put another way: all of the code that needed to be written has now been written. Now we can move on to more interesting things.

What will really bake peoples' noodles is when it becomes apparent that the same is true for literature. I won't mind if I'm not around to witness that... but it will happen.