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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 democr

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

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

A reply to Armin Ronacher

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 meanin

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 tec

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

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 spa

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

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