The Fork-It-and-Forget Decade

In this episode, Tim O’Brien looks back at three decades of open source — from Unix labs in the 1990s to the chaotic Cambrian explosion of GitHub — and argues that we’re entering a new “Fork-It-and-Forget” era.

Article this Episode Summarizes: https://medium.com/@tobrien/the-fork-it-and-forget-decade-dbb41008f961

Generative AI isn’t just coding; it’s starting to fork, patch, and remix open source projects at machine speed. Tim connects the dots between Linux’s 2.4 kernel, the rise of Apache, the Git revolution, and the next wave of AI-driven code evolution — and what it all means for developers, FinOps teams, and the economics of software.

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