[dudewhocodes]

We're being sold our own skill set back to us in a gated service that was created only because we allowed them to steal our intellectual property.

Paying for an IDE, course or fancy tools was paying for complementary additions instead of the core.

Just look at the, often smug, messaging of these companies. Your means of producing economic value are being centralized. The perceived and actual value of software products is being lowered, but some keep bragging about how a bot is doing their job.

Open-source models must win.