The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

零成本谬论：代理时代的开源软件

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The zero-cost fallacy: Open source software in the agentic era Engineering Stack Back Close Open source Generative AI Blog By Chris Ford and Richard Gall Published: July 09, 2026 We’re living through the friction points of an architectural shift that has been decades in the making, but has accelerated sharply under the pressure of generative AI. For years, the software engineering industry has operated on a comfortable, perhaps lazy, myth: that open source software is an infinite, self-renewing public good that costs nothing to consume and requires nothing to sustain.

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