Build your GPT-powered search agent in ~100 lines of code

… is what I asked myself when I joined the Meta Open Source team. In the 2000s, this novel engineering paradigm confounded traditional economists, and they set about studying it. As I didn’t have first-hand experience maintaining a community project, I leveraged research by information technologists, sociologists and economists to make sense of this dynamic. Sharing my takeaways here. Obligatory XKCD OSS Work is Tough The quality bar for submissions is much higher than a regular corporate job Lot of legwork to understand the project and people working on it Communication can be fairly irregular at times, making it harder to meaningfully contribute But people still want to dedicate their time and effort for free....

Why do anything yourself when AI can do it better?