Devtools must be open source(blog.exe.dev)

695 points by bryanmikaelian 2 months ago | 227 comments

Blog post by David Crawshaw on exe.dev arguing that developer tools must be open source, starting from how engineers rarely wrote software for themselves.

Open source is neither a community nor a democracy(world.hey.com)

59 points by levlaz 2 years ago | 37 comments

Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP(ezzeriesa.notion.site)

370 points by kurinikku 1 year ago | 211 comments

A Notion-hosted blog post recounting a week-long SICP course taught by David Beazley, covering functions, interpreters, and tail call optimization.

I’m joining OpenAI(steipete.me)

1350 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 1032 comments

Peter Steinberger's blog post announcing he is joining OpenAI to work on agents, while his OpenClaw project moves to an independent open foundation.

Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)

321 points by srid 1 year ago | 196 comments

A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.

Paying people to work on open source is good(jacobian.org)

283 points by webology 2 years ago | 101 comments