> My agentic software development loop requires heavy involvement of real-world feedback. The ratio is huge. 20 mins of agentic software coding against hours or days of testing, trying it out, real-world contact, thinking about what feature is next or what tweak would make it more usable, smooth, intuitive. That feedback is baked into the product. Forcing it to be open source steals all that time and effort for me, and takes from me the decision as to how and whether to open-source it.
It doesn't need to be open-sourced: if it's legal to take an LLM that was trained on every other product in existence and use that LLM to produce clones of all those products, then it's legal to do the same to your product to.
So, go ahead and release. There'll be an open-source clone in no time if the product is any good at all.
In fact, if there are no clones, take that as direct feedback that you wasted your money on tokens - your product is so bad no one even wants it for the few dollars it will take to clone it.
It doesn't need to be open-sourced: if it's legal to take an LLM that was trained on every other product in existence and use that LLM to produce clones of all those products, then it's legal to do the same to your product to.
So, go ahead and release. There'll be an open-source clone in no time if the product is any good at all.
In fact, if there are no clones, take that as direct feedback that you wasted your money on tokens - your product is so bad no one even wants it for the few dollars it will take to clone it.