Stages of grief about the effect of AI on open source. Denial: - AI code is slop! Nobody serious will use this. - Open source will keep working exactly like it always has. Anger: - These AI slop PRs are ruining GitHub! - Ban AI-generated code! - If you close PRs, you're not open source anymore! Bargaining: - Okay, AI can write code, but only if a human reviews every line. - Maybe adversarial AI review will make arbitrary external code intake safe again. Depression: - Wait, if code generation is basically free, what is a contribution anymore? - Is GitHub-style open source culture just going away? Acceptance: - Open source is still open source, even if the contribution model evolves. - Good issues, test cases, benchmarks, specifications, and ideas become the scarce inputs. - Upstream may stop accepting arbitrary code while forking becomes much easier. Bonus stage! Reconstruction: - Projects redesign around maintainer-controlled agents, issue-driven development, stronger test/validation infrastructure, and new ways for contributors to earn trust.

Clanker copied into the project one non-essential Go library. But trick was to leave only the parts used by the project. What was left was 7% of the original code, and more than 50% of that was tests.

Doczilla builds ~50000 gems documentation with rdoc. It took 46 hours to rebuild them all. Many gems didn't build at all (due to timeouts). Yesterday I rebuilt documentation with rdoc 8.1 and it took 15 hours.

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Peter Thiel just pointed out a pretty brutal difference between America’s young wealthy and Germany’s. Looking at the 50 richest people in each country who are Gen X or younger, Thiel says 9 of 12 Americans made their own fortunes. Germany? All 20 inherited theirs. “Not a single person did something new, made some new money, built a large new scalable company.” Germany isn’t running out of rich people. Thiel thinks it’s running out of people getting rich by building something new. Writer: Lynn

Unlike @5katkov's jekyll-llms, which converts each page's source, jekyll-md converts the final rendered HTML, so links, images, and other markup come out as clean Markdown instead of leaking through verbatim.

In my experience, founders with successfull business in Dev tooling space so often advise not to build products for developers. Everyone has scary stories about how hard it is to sell to this target audience.