I’m serious.

A passionate rant arguing that closed-source software is becoming increasingly dangerous in the AI era, as AI-assisted development allows teams to ship bugs and performance regressions 10-100x faster with no accountability. The author criticizes Cursor's degrading performance, Anthropic's decision to keep Claude Code closed source (including DMCA-ing accidentally leaked source maps), and Notion's AI-driven quality decline. Contrasted with the author's own experience open-sourcing T3 Code, which gained 30,000 users and 1,100 forks, enabling community customization and accountability. Also introduces the patch-package workflow championed by a talented intern (Yash) who fearlessly modifies dependencies directly rather than working around them. The core thesis: closed-source developers can now ruin software faster than ever, and open source is the only accountability mechanism that scales.