{"id":17396,"date":"2026-10-15T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17396"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:07:54","slug":"everything-is-now-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17396","title":{"rendered":"Everything is now open source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wajoP_5Cpw8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the advent of (admittedly mediocre quality) reverse engineered apps via claude coding and tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rea-githu\/REA\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rea-githu\/REA\">Reverse Engineer Anything<\/a> , you can now create your own version of anything &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/storytold\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/storytold\">and people are<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The implications of this are pretty astounding. Is SAS completely dead? What does security look like when everyone makes their own apps? What if we don&#8217;t even buy or make traditional apps anymore &#8211; but generate whatever software we need on the fly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the advent of (admittedly mediocre quality) reverse engineered apps via claude coding and tools like Reverse Engineer Anything , you can now create your own version of anything &#8211; and people are. The implications of this are pretty astounding. Is SAS completely dead? What does security look like when everyone makes their own apps? What if we don&#8217;t even buy or make traditional apps anymore &#8211; but generate whatever software we need on the fly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-ideas","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4wA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17397,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions\/17397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}