Open Source in the age of AI

kept by eddie feb 27

AI is enabling rapid cloning of open source codebases, as demonstrated by Cloudflare rebuilding Next.js in a week, challenging the value of software licenses and the premise of open source.

The Hacker Sent by Anthropic to Calm the Government’s Nerves About AI Safety - WSJ
Anthropic's Nicholas Carlini, who demonstrated AI's ability to find critical security bugs, is now arguing for releasing models to calm U.S. government concerns.
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The ‘Do or Die’ Days - by A.M. Hickman
Author reflects on his creative block, financial windfall, and dilemma over investing in rural New York revitalization amid isolation, taxes, and community risk.
also on Substack
The View from RSS
Using RSS feeds reveals the hidden structure of online content, including SEO articles and paywall circumvention, contrasting with curated homepages.
also on Substack
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare; the tools will remain open source and vendor-agnostic, with Cloudflare committing $1M to a Vite ecosystem fund.
also on Vite, Cloudflare, #open-source, #ai-coding
Announcing Vite+ Beta
Vite+ beta unifies runtime, package manager, and frontend tools like Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxlint into a single open-source CLI workflow for web projects.
also on Vite, Cloudflare, #open-source