KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China – does AI threaten the open source movement? Exclusive Q&A with CNCF, Huawei, and Solo.io

Just by The Peak on Hong Kong island – jump in the tram to the summit, where the views are breathtaking – you will find the Hopewell Hotel. A well-named venue for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China event, as the CNCF celebrates its tenth year and looks towards the future.

Away from the conference floor, buzzing with excited coders, developers, and engineers – most of them Chinese, but with a handful from Europe, India, North America, and Africa – I pulled up a chair to hear from three of the event's hosts and keynote speakers.

This was CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk; Kevin Wang, Lead of the Cloud Native Open Source Team for Shenzhen-based electronics giant, Huawei; and Lin Sun, Head of Open Source for cloud-native API management platform, Solo.io.

AI coding and the future of open source expertise

My first question had been brewing in my mind throughout ...