So put two and two together. ChatGPT has fixed my Ubuntu machine three times now following rogue updates that borked the graphics drivers, by requesting logfiles by name from the machine, reading the errors from those, and telling me what things I needed to download from the Ubuntu repository to my machine, and what configuration changes to make, to make it work again, and it works, every time, with no reversions to older software, it actually updates the machine in a way that was obvously not known previously by Ubuntu, and this is the latest version of development Ubuntu, which came out long after ChatGPT's "Initial data", so ChatGPT is learning, and it learns more every time it fixes another machine, it gets to know the requirements of more and more hardware.

Add to this I've created Chatbots using its instructions for environments with platform-specific scripting languages that I don't know much about, by me giving it the specificaton for the bot I'd like, and it spitting out the code of the bot, all ready to go, I needed almost zero coding skills to do this.

So an open sourcer for any community can do the same, to interface it with their repository, and a user of the software of that repository can interface with it to maintain their machine, and even make requests for additional functionality on their machine that the software might not have been able to do before, ChatGPT gets to automatically update both repository and user machine... see where it goes?

Yup, the end of all manual programming requirements in open source communities. Sounds bad for coders but don't forget most of them in those communities do it for love, not money, so they will not stop just because ChatGPT got involved. BUT how will MS Windows compete with fully automated Ubuntu?

Personally I don't think it can.

It isn't the end for open source, but it could well be the end for proprietary software, and that won't be a bad thing, it seems to me.