publish blogpost 37 Michiel de Jong, founder of Ponder Source, argues in a July 2026 blog post that the falling cost of AI software production will weaken proprietary giants like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, shifting power to AI companies and making open source funding better directed toward self-hostable open source LLMs. He reports using Claude to modernize a decade-old HTML app, adding tests and moving server-side code into the browser, and claims that developing open source alternatives now requires only a requirements specification and a $20 Claude subscription. He also cites Cory Doctorow and Rainer Mühlhoff warning that the AI boom is becoming a weapon of the super rich, threatening the entire knowledge economy. | | 1 | + < DOCTYPE html | | 2 | +