About Open Source
Ideas, then prompts, then code. Code is the least interesting thing to open source.
The most meaningful open source in this era, in order of priority:
- Open-source the idea.
- Open-source the prompt.
- And only last of all, open-source the code.
My own projects are built for myself from the start, so they’re deeply personal. When I don’t put the code on GitHub, it’s not because I’m hiding anything — it’s because I trust that anyone genuinely interested can rebuild the thing from copy-paste.
And even when the code itself doesn’t get open sourced, the idea and the prompt still can — I’ve said as much in earlier posts.
As for the code: the reason it stays closed is that open sourcing it properly means ripping it out of my local environment and turning it into something anyone can run as a product. Honestly, that’s enough effort to go build a whole other thing. So I’ll pass on that.
关于开源
想法、提示词、代码 —— 按这个顺序。代码反而是最不值得开源的那个。
我认为这个时代最大的开源，依次是：
- 把想法开源。
- 把提示词开源。
- 最后才是开源代码。
我自己的这些项目本来就是 build for myself，所以非常 personal。有的时候不方便开源代码，并不是我藏着掖着，而是我相信感兴趣的人通过 copy-paste 肯定就能把这个东西做出来。
而且就算代码不开源，想法和提示词我是可以开源的——这些我在之前的博客里面也已经说过了。
至于代码本身，不方便开源是因为要把它从我本地的环境剥离出来，做成一个大家都能用的产品。说实话，这番精力都够我再去 build 另外一个东西了。所以那个就算了吧。