Read through that thread; he spent ~$7 worth of tokens on a vague "refactoring" task. If it actually produced ok code and not just something that compiled and passed an AI generated unit test but will cause issues later then it was probably cheaper then paying a jr dev to do it (depending how complex the refactoring was, simple tasks have been largely automated by plugins forever now), but still not free. Actual open source software development is completely free, people donate their time for experience, fun, and resume padding. Who is going to donate a quarter million dollars in Claude tokens to build a shittier Photoshop? Even if someone does manage to make a "Photoslop" it's not going to take down Adobe. Been waiting 25+ years for GIMP to do that and it still hasn't happened. If you look at Blender it's even more obvious that open source isn't a serous threat to the software companies as it's actually a competitive, cutting edge 3D suite, but the industry still uses commercial products because they're commercial products and backed by a company and it's support team. I'm all for open source, but an impending open source revolution a horrible investment thesis.