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asyncmind on Nostr: AI Just Unleashed the Developers’ Vendetta. Every major operating system is now on ...

AI Just Unleashed the Developers’ Vendetta.

Every major operating system is now on notice.

For decades, developers were forced to kneel before the gatekeepers.

Certificates. Entitlements. App store approvals. Proprietary SDKs. Arbitrary restrictions. Endless authorization hoops.

Entire generations of brilliant engineers wasted their productive lives satisfying the bureaucratic appetites of operating systems that were supposed to serve them.

Then AI handed developers a crowbar.

Suddenly, interfaces can be generated. Applications can be rebuilt. Legacy dependencies can be replaced. Entire software stacks can be reimagined by individuals who no longer need an army of specialists.

The operating system was supposed to be the foundation.

Instead, its owners turned it into a tollbooth.

And now the people who understand the machinery are discovering they can build around the tollbooth.

This isn't about defeating legitimate security. It's about making artificial gatekeeping economically irrelevant.

The developers' revenge won't be to destroy the walled gardens.

It will be to build a world in which nobody needs to enter them.

The most devastating form of payback isn't rebellion.

It's obsolescence.

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