The Linux Foundation runs the world's open source infrastructure — and over the past year we put AI agents on the engine that powers it. This is the honest field report: what we automated, what broke, and what it means for the millions of developers whose careers are built on writing code. The headline is uncomfortable but freeing: AI has made writing code nearly free, so the value moved elsewhere — to judgment, domain depth, and trust. The moat moved from code to context. Drawing on India's own proof points, from UPI to open models like Sarvam and BharatGen, I map the ladder AI can't climb and the concrete moves people, companies, and projects can make to build the open future under their own name.
