An excellent piece, I like this kind of thinking. It works in fact as several level in your life.

This is a good way to see that the architecture questions are multi-layered. And yes, in enterprise contexts they go all the way to the company strategy level.

Unsurprisingly the big tech players want their own information bubble too. This kind of propaganda machine isn't really new, but they feel like they need their own now.

This debate around licensing, politics and making our FOSS efforts sustainable need to happen. It looks like for now to some people the path forward is defensive licensing? I wish at least we'd first attempt to have more strong copyleft use...

I was actually wondering when this would happen. Was just a matter of time, would have expected this move a couple of months ago.

I'm happy to see I'm actually very much aligned with one of the "Attention Is All You Need" co-authors. The current industry trend of "just scale the transformer architecture" is indeed stifling innovation and actual research. That said I find ironic that he talks about freedom to explore... well this is what public labs used to be about, but we decided to drastically reduce their funding and replace that with competition between startups. It's no surprise we have very myopic views on problems.

It was around two years ago, but maybe a good idea to revisit it with the recent AWS outage?

Some food for thought about the use of bounded contexts in Domain Driven Design.

It's a bit of a sour article but it rings so true... We let Open Source take the mantle in companies which are mostly free loaders and churn closed products, or even worse have them closed and DRM protected. There's really quite some work to still realize the Free Software goals.

Some relationships here are definitely shady. Be careful who you trust with your traffic.

This is indeed an open question. Looks like it has the potential to lead to interesting boards in any case.

Definitely a good move to have more sustainable income for Mastodon.

Looks like another certification circus is about to begin...

I felt that a bit the past couple of years when looking how the ecosystem evolved. The situation seems concerning to me.

This is one way to frame it I guess. Code is indeed an investment, tests are here to protect it.

I'm not sure this dichotomy is enough for building a taxonomy of FOSS projects. But I guess it's a start and captures something often missing in other such attempts.

Just another hype cycle... The developer profession being in danger is greatly exaggerated.

If you expected another outcome on the average developer job from the LLM craze... you likely didn't pay attention enough.

If the funding dries up... we'll have another AI winter on our hands indeed.

Interesting point of view. I'm not sure I fully agree with the classification but it gives something to mull over. For sure the less reliable your estimates the more padding is needed to have some predictability.