Reading up on River
4 deep · digging since mar 16
- The minimum viable unit of saleable software
Falling costs of AI-assisted coding shift the build-vs-buy calculus, but hidden maintenance, organizational risk, and irrational buyer behavior keep proprietary software viable.
- Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
A proposed separation of Wayland compositor and window manager into distinct components, as seen in the River project, aims to restore the modular flexibility users had in X11.
Takes
At Shopify we've built one of the most widely used internal coding agents in the world. Over time we've made it more flexible, and recently our Infrastructure Security team started using River to automate autonomous vulnerability remediation. It's had a massive impact: 👇
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