--- title: The Future of Software and Open Source | daily.dev description: Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub and GitButler, reflects on how AI coding tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent a shift as significant as the rise... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-software-and-open-source-j71qdb3hd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Future of Software and Open Source | daily.dev og:description: Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub and GitButler, reflects on how AI coding tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent a shift as significant as the rise... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-software-and-open-source-j71qdb3hd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J71QDB3hd.png og:image:alt: The Future of Software and Open Source og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Future of Software and Open Source **[GitButler Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gitbutler)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub and GitButler, reflects on how AI coding tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent a shift as significant as the rise of open source. He argues that developers won't lose their jobs but will evolve into orchestrators of AI code generators, with the text editor eventually becoming obsolete. Most intriguingly, he envisions AI-driven collaboration transforming open source itself — removing human friction from sharing code and enabling a new era where every snippet and function contributes to a frictionless global knowledge base. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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