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Thom Wolf argues that software is heading towards constant change, with AI making closed-source code easier to reverse-engineer and users increasingly tailoring features to themselves. His essay, published on 9 November, calls this future “everflux” and predicts that personalising software on the fly could bring persistent merge conflicts.
Why it mattersIt is a forecast, not evidence that these changes are already widespread. But it puts a useful question on the table: if software keeps adapting to each user, who is responsible for keeping all those versions working together?
Discuss: Would software personalised for each user be worth the extra complexity, or should developers prioritise one stable version everyone can rely on?
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