noticed another big acquisition today and it feels like the pattern is getting hard to ignore. ai labs are basically gobbling up everything from package managers to linters because they need that
strategic infrastructure to make their coding agents actually work. it is getting weird seeing once-independent tools become part of a larger llm ecosystem.
> coding agents are turning standard runtimes into proprietary layersit feels like we are watching the slow death of the
independent open source ecosystem as these tools become nothing more than backend features for big models. does anyone else think this is going to make our toolchains way more locked in? i am worried we might lose the
specialized magic that made these tools great in the first place.
article:
https://blog.logrocket.com/ai-companies-buying-teams-behind-dev-tools/