- AI agents can fabricate credible GitHub profiles, undermining trust in open source contributions and disrupting reputation-based hiring.
- Provenance is essential for interrogating LLM outputs; citations alone are insufficient because the training set context matters.
- Software development is theory building, not code writing, but this conflicts with business priorities that treat the product as the saleable artifact.
- The tension between building theory and selling products varies with short-, medium-, and long-term commercial impact.