Codeberg recently changed its
terms to
exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Since I want
GitHub to face competition I have thoughts.
Codeberg is entirely within its rights to do this. It is an association with
members and a democratic process, and ...
I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly.
That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of
Babel” which shows
an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel. The story is usually
told as one about pride and ambition and ultima...
A very strange Pi issue
sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that
newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in
the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The
edit itself is ...
I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and
figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.
— Boris Cherny
Over the last months I have watched more and more people build something on top
of coding agents that feels meaningfully different f...
There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit
by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and
Mythos. Anthropic and
their leadership have spent a lot of time and effort describing its own
technology as dangerou...
I have been a staunch supporter of Open Source for a long time, including
experiments
in
funding it.
I’m a true believer in the idea that Open Source always wins in the long run,
but not automatically and not quickly. Right now it is being stressed by AI
slop, shifting cont...
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around
abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these
communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy,
choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer str...
In my last post I used the word “clanker1” as an
alternative to “agent” quite consistently and probably excessively. That choice
ended up attracting a lot more attention than I expected in the Hacker News
comment section of that post and a number of folks had a very strong ...
Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is
still Mario’s project. He has been living with its
issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of
the new form of agent traffic in Open Source projects for longer too. This post
is ...
I really, really want local models to work.
I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent,
pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I do
not immediately switch back to a hosted API after five minutes. There a...
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not
everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my
community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked
in” or “cracked.” I don’t like it, because...
GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge
was.
Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories,
tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrastructure I controlled. Later I
moved projects to Bitbucket, back when Bit...
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