This is something that my current company is learning the hard way sadly.

You don’t pay saas companies for a code base. You pay them for maintenance, hosting, and figuring out complexity for you.

Vibe coded stuff is garbage because the only thought that went into it was a 5 minute “build this for me”.

these people wouldn't know what a "clean-room" was if it swallowed them whole

Lost me at:

armed with AI

Everyone walking away from this because it touches AI is losing the plot. This is probably the closest thing to digital revolution we can get. Hear me out.

There are a lot of opinions and lots of anger about how things are going in the world today and particularly the USA. More people are getting out to meat space and doing something but those protests, especially in geographically spread out areas like the USA , will never physically embody all of the frustrated people like it does in more concentrated areas, like the EU.

The next layer is the current world order, which, like it or not, has global corporatism acting as second order governance. Their ability to influence not just politics but the employment of millions leaves them in a powerful, dark, and self perpetuating unregulated position, moving from puppets to the puppet masters. This appears to be changing, hopefully. Time will tell.

AI is an extremely powerful tool. Like any globally influential idea, it requires critical thinking and a nuanced understanding to properly leverage. The cold take, at least in left of center circles (generally), is to throw out the baby with the bath water, and shut down anyone that would use it or advocate using it in any way.

At the risk of sounding too Boromir-ish to those people, nay, it is a gift.

The current world order is built on digital life. Social media. Mass marketing via ads. Screens are cheap, eyeballs plentiful, minds accessible and moods malleable. The tech world and tech bros have taken first mover advantage and turned it into a stranglehold on modern life.

Oh you’re still reading? Good, then here’s the payoff. This initiative is one of the strongest steps to take it all back or remove its power.

What if we could open source every major digital platform out there? Every app, every social media, every game, every utility free and downloadable. Open source has always been here but the ability to develop it has been hamstrung by time, effort, manpower or a combination of all three. You’re reading this on the fediverse so odds are you already share that ideology somewhat.

Open sourcing the worlds digital platforms means reducing individual and business reliance on the current monoliths of tech. There’s is nothing out there that cannot be developed and copied for use for free now. Everything can be reverse engineered and offered for a fraction of the overhead. The cornerstone of tech, programming - control over the digital bricks used to shape the world - has had the cost of creation nigh abolished. Hardware and infrastructure are the limiters, but that isn’t new. What’s new is we now have a tool, AI, that can help us build the new hardware and infrastructure for our own purposes, individuals or businesses, to free ourselves from their control.

The very tool that they use to make their system more efficient is the same tool we must use to REPLACE THEM just as they replace us. AI is power to the people as much as it is power to the corps.

However it’s the ENERGY and EFFORT to adopt, support, and use these open-source, free-world initiatives that were must cultivate. If the people abolish all use of AI and corporations keep using it, will it’s like racing a horse against a car. Blind rejection is unwitting surrender.

That’s why this project and anything else like it is vital.

There are plenty of valid reasons on both sides of the AI argument, but I feel like in the long run, if the resources used to provide AI are kept in check (harmonious with the environment) and a humanistic approach is made by businesses to adopt it, no one would have a problem with it. However, capitalism dictates otherwise so we must fight with the same weapons our opposition has, the same weapons that threaten our ability to provide for our families in this day and age, or risk failure. Ironically the same argument the frontier labs have against each other.

I didn’t mean to ramble so much. I guess I feel pretty strongly about this. I think i probably lost my train of thought a time or two but hopefully my point came across. Thanks for reading and I hope I swayed a few minds.

Lol websites made by Claude all look the same

ZeroAuthy? whats wrong with Keycloak? its good to have multiple options but why bother if you are just going to vibe the whole thing?

If anyone is interested in existing alternatives:

• Auth0: https://openaltfinder.com/alternatives-to/auth0
• Salesforce: https://openaltfinder.com/alternatives-to/salesforce

I would prefer middleware and quality PRs to existing alternitives more tbh, but more options opposed to the demonic contracts the better

There's a ton of open source idps. The only reason anyone uses entra or Google idp is because they're already using windows or chrome/android

I've never actually seen anyone using auth0. I assume because they read how much it would cost versus something like authentik or keycloak.

Also I didn't see any mention of self hosting this software they're vibe coding.

People pays for long term maintenance and support. I'm sympathetic to the mouvement and motivation but it's not going to change much.

I mean in principle, stealing IP from big tech would be great, but do they have to have even the English written by AI? It writes in the most grating tech bro tone I have ever had the misfortune of reading. Can't be bothered to write all the code, fine, but can you at least write the introduction to your project? Do you even not care about that?

Honestly, as many objections as I have to LLMs and codegen, I honestly don’t object to using it in this context as a tool to counterattack. I feel like this is a relatively reasonable way to fuck with the megacorps and take a slice of their pie.

Yeah I'm good thanks I'd rather use kanidm as SSO Server. It's also opensource and made by people who know what they are doing.

ServiceNow next please. Fuck the "SI" Control Tower

spite software is the best kind of software