I mentioned in my previous post that, at a previous career stop, I built open-source support into our IT lifecycle. Specifically, we used QGIS. The primary reason we made that choice is that we were a Mac shop. It's true we could have run ArcGIS Pro inside Parallels, but I didn't see the need to pay the "VM tax" in terms of performance to use software that was essentially a match in capability to QGIS, which ran natively on MacOS.

You are already using open-source. I've said that time and again to various audiences. The most committed Microsoft and Esri users will immediately balk, but it's easy to knock the objections down. Azure? Linux abounds. Esri? GDAL under the hood. And what does the "Py" in ArcPy stand for? Oh yeah, Python, the open-source programming language. You're already using open-source, even if you don't know it.

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I have no problem with vibe coding. Yes, you can make bad code with it, and quite easily. The worst way to vibe code is to issue a monolithic prompt like "Build a word processor with the features of Microsoft Word." But using techniques like chain-of-thought or plan-and-solve prompting in an iterative manner can yield pretty good results. Not perfect - you'll still have some last-mile editing to do - but it can provide a pretty good jump start.

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