AI is compressing the cost of building and maintaining software. That threatensens some “coding machine” jobs — and it also reopens niche custom apps that budget once killed. A practitioner’s note for freelancers, small agencies, NGOs and organisations, with Umbraculum (docs) only as an illustrative stack example (not an endorsement).
OpenPLC is open source. That is not a slogan for this brewery project — it is how we reverse-engineered the Editor project layout, the Runtime upload path, and the generated ST so AI-assisted work could stay grounded in real code. Here is what that looked like in practice.
For the first time in open source, I feel something chilling — that we could have surrendered our intellectual strength to the big tech giants. I could be wrong. I do not like this feeling. PhotoCraft’s “you already know” is where that doubt starts.
