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Understanding code we didn’t write ourselves is one of the hardest parts of software engineering. If we approach agentic coding the way we tackle manual coding, we’ll turn ourselves into legacy code maintainers. That’s unlikely to speed up anything.
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Rising AI capability is undermining the assumptions that justify slow, manual government processes.Their words
AI creates a crisis by making the assumptions on which government operates untenable.
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The Complex PTSD Treatment ManualTheir words
Have you grabbed the free worksheets from my Complex PTSD Treatment Manual yet?
26 August
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you want to get to a point where you know, your your machine, your org is self-sufficient enough that you know, you just need to occasionally tap the blimp, make sure that things are working. You can course correct if it's not, but that frees you up to then focus on the next important sets of problems that the org needs to, you know, tackle heads on.
14 August
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korrents.com
A computer meant for anyone has to be understandable without a manual, and it has to be friendly.Their words
And we wanted it to be as understandable as possible, so you wouldn't necessarily need a manual, and that it should be friendly
12 August
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korrents.com
In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.Their words
The client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.
3 August
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it helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.
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It shouldn't It shouldn't be shelved next to How to Win Friends and Influence People because it's a manual not of how to gain power, but of how to keep power.
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korrents.com
Building the hardest feature in a product yields disproportionately greater returns than easier ones.Their words
Choosing to tackle "the hardest feature" generally produces power-law-level returns, as opposed to tackling something less hard.
20 May
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korrents.com
Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel — the maintainers agreed that at their December 2025 summit.Their words
The big news were that at the Linux kernel maintainer summit, we agreed that Rust is no longer experimental in the kernel. That was really big for us compared to the previous year.
19 March
From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think Opus 4.5 was the first one that earned my trust. Like I'm very confident now that for classes of problems that I've seen it tackle before, it's not going to do anything stupid.
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projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
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16 November 2025
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It significantly lowered the bar to production. It is how we got the whole society to run on software. If you make it harder for hobbyists maintainers, you are going to crash society.
22 March 2025
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I think there's this whole idea, I call it a denial of attention. I think there's an entire attack vector that's going to be happening. We're using LLMs to generate fake bug reports, fake all these things to just actually effectively to demotivate and hurt open source maintainers.
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Ceado HoopTheir words
The Hoop may be the perfect manual brewer for cafes, as baristas can simply pour and walk away, knowing that four minutes later, the Hoop will deliver an excellent extraction.
8 July 2024
From one piece Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.Their words
Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.
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From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.
1 April 2024
From one piece You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It means that anything you offer must fit in 1h per month. That is it. And if it does not, if it needs more involvement than that, we, as maintainers, will not do it. At all.
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This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
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If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.
19 December 2023
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The Science of Learning PhysicsTheir words
Mestre and Docktor tackle this challenge by reviewing the large body of literature on learning physics. I plan on writing a full review of their book, which I found to be a helpful summary.
2 February 2023
From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Foundations, on the whole, do not pay the maintainers of the projects they exist to support.Their words
Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of large companies. Foundations on average don’t pay maintainers.
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korrents.com
Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
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This is how I frame it: if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go unmaintained is measured in engineer-months, that’s a critical dependency and retaining its maintainers probably makes good business sense.
31 December 2022
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korrents.com
Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
2 June 2022
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Manual for LivingTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
11 December 2021
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