This is actually one creative idea, kudos. I encourage you to reach out to OP as he was asking for discussion in case he didn't see this comment. This is the only newer out of the box idea I saw in this thread

> There are already so many ways (and reasons) not to do free or open source software. People who find them convincing are using them.

To be honest, I don't think the space between GPL/MIT and commercial closed source is explored enough. I'm aware there's a few examples of things in between, but they are not common knowledge and they don't satisfy everyone. It is not a space that is easy to search online for established wisdom and comparisons in.

Source Available licenses + commercial agreements seem to cover that middle ground well.

> Besides, why would "bad guys" be deterred by a license, anyway?

I imagine because we're talking about a subcategory of "bad guys" who still like to stay within the confines of the law (supposedly at least).

So in that case, would someone willing to publish LLM-speak under their name be similarly adopting that "voice".

Does that entail that LLMs are not in fact erasing our societal voices, only making it easier to adopt bland-corporate en-mass?

That's a reasonable interpretation. People are choosing to mute their voices, and replace their identity with ChatGPT.

It's not a passive loss of voice. Their voice didn't fall off and slip between the couch cushions.

I don't find that current generation LLMs output such short sentences that would start with the same prefix such as "Your voice".

There was recently this link talking about AI slop articles on medium

https://rmoff.net/2025/11/25/ai-smells-on-medium/

He doesn't link many examples, but at the end he gives the example of an author pumping out +8 articles in a week across a variety of topics. https://medium.com/@ArkProtocol1

I don't spend time on medium so I don't personally know.

This is a valuable take tbh, I missed it.

Zig team ought to probably write about it in that manner.

welp...cool product (xllify) I gotta say. Didn't know custom excel functions (XLL/DLL) were a thing.

Thank you! Yes they've been around a long while. They perform well and can make use of multiple threads etc. The SDK is pretty old school so best to use a layer on top such as xllify, Excel-DNA...

Commit history has 5 commits, 3 of them are 1day ago, and all of them add +1000 lines.

Definitely looks like it.

Well i would counter that by saying most code has been autocompleted for a while. At this point in software development history, discussing the size of commits is a null discussion :).

Speaking of the US, how are TN visas nowadays? Are companies allergic to their paperwork like other visas that are harder to get?

Anecdotally as someone in a large tech company, fairly common and much easier to get than a lot of visa classes. But then, you have to be Canadian or Mexican (and the Canadian one is generally easier).

Also keep in mind that it's a non-immigrant, non-dual intent visa, so if you end up wanting to stay, you'll need to adjust to another class at some point.