1) If it's open source, what's the incentive to steal from you anyway? It's free. That's one of the interesting moats in the age of AI.
2) If it's at risk of being stolen/copied today, it will be the same thing 10-100-1000 days from now. There is no hiding from AI copy cats. Just put it out there and find out if someone actually will want to do it. If yes, you saved yourself a bunch of time.
Been almost a year -- the last time I found it useful was trying to work out a capricious error that an API threw that gave virtually no information. Now that I think of it, today I would probably ask an LLM to search the internet for answer if it didn't know and then it would visit stackoverflow on my behalf.
I use OpenAI deep research feature a ton, what's cool about this is being able to see it do the research live vs. being told just hte steps in text format (I always have to go deeper and copy/paste the sources to verify
2) If it's at risk of being stolen/copied today, it will be the same thing 10-100-1000 days from now. There is no hiding from AI copy cats. Just put it out there and find out if someone actually will want to do it. If yes, you saved yourself a bunch of time.