Tim O'Reilly argues shareable context may replace code as software's key artifact
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Tim O'Reilly argues in O'Reilly Radar that as LLMs make code cheap to generate, the valuable shareable artifacts in software development may shift toward prompts, specs, context bundles and agent traces.
He draws on the histories of open source, the web and spreadsheets to support the case, according to the report.
O'Reilly says new institutions and sharing mechanisms are still needed for this shift, and he argues the question applies beyond software to other fields.
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AITim O'Reilly argues that as LLMs make code cheap to generate, the valuable shareable artifacts in software development may shift toward prompts, specs, context bundles and agent traces. He draws on open source, web and spreadsheet history to argue that new institutions and sharing mechanisms are still needed, and says the question applies across fields.
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