I share Linus Torvalds' view on AI for programming: it is a tool, a very useful one at that, but like all tools it needs someone who knows how to use it to use it effectively.
This response is approaching AI as a technology, not "Big AI" and it's miriad of ethical issues. A purely technical viewpoint.
There is ambiguity on this blog post as to whether Claude wrote the whole thing from scratch or it took an assistive role; I have nothing against purely agentic coding, or vibe-coding, but for something as crucial as your display server, I don't trust even the leading frontier models for that yet.
This person's concept of developing, or at least designing (as is my preferred term when referring to agentically-written programs), all their software is very cool and has inspired me to contemplate some of my own tools. But again, I don't think I'll be writing my own X server or Wayland compositor anytime soon.
My gosh you people concern yourselves with what I feed my cat more than what you feed yourselves huh?
It’s in the damn title “a little slommy”.
No her diet is not 100% fatty processed salty cold cuts.
She is an exceptionally healthy cat, always has been, very active outdoors and showing no signs of ageing despite being 13 this year. Rarely ever had to take her to the vet, the worst we get is some knots in her fur sometimes.
2025 - 2026 has been such a shit show I'm desensitised to hearing that some misunderstanding hateful politician made my people's lives that much more difficult.
When you get one who fights not just for you, but alongside you (going to Pride parades), the heart is quick to let that numbness go away as it clings onto a new thread of hope.
This is fantastic news, and is hopefully a sign of good things to come in November. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
If anyone needed any more evidence that this class is totally outright malicious, know that many of them have already spent more money trying to fight this "tax" than the "tax" would've cost them.
They are literally just fucking over the working class for the love of the game.
When I was a kid, a friend of mine hosted a birthday party on a paintball range. We played for I don't know how long, large group of us, was really fun.
One thing the instructors told us, keep your mouth shut.
You see, we wore face masks, however for us to breathe of course there's a grill where you mouth goes.
Needless to say, I got shot right on that mouth grill, and naturally due to the shock of it I opened my mouth...
The paintball burst on the grill, and I had the whole volume of paint launched deep into my throat.
It was so... ungodly... salty. For the rest of the day all I could taste was salt (the blow occured around early afternoon). And that's coming from someone who also on another unrelated occassion ended up with a deep mouthful of sea water.
This does fly directly in the face of Ladybird's mission, yes, but this sort of thing isn't limited to just them, and while this is a rather nuclear response, we must remain mindful and grateful for the thousands of hours of time these people have put into this project; building a web browser and engine from scratch is not an easy task and it's understandable that they don't want to allow low-quality code and security vulnerabilities in.
To me this demonstrates that they truly care not just about getting this project out the door, but to do so in good faith and with high quality.
The codebase remains open-source, and the engine is still true to it's goals to decentralise the web.
One day I do hope FOSS as a community finds an answer to low-quality mass-produced PRs written with poorly prompted AI tools, and I do hope when that happens they may reconsider their position.
Until then, I wish them the best and commend their ongoing work and await a release eagerly!
As a resident of the UK, the international Eyes coallitions are unfortunately unavoidable for me, so that is mostly moot.
But I agree with everything else, especially the AI API, I would consider allowing a local open-source and open-weight SLM access to my inbox for summarisations / weekly digests, among various other ideas.
Been using Fastmail for a couple years now, previously bouced between Proton and Tuta.
I cannot fault Fastmail, yes, like the name suggests, it is fast (sending is almost instant and new email comes through quickly too), but their features for inbox sorting, rules, and custom domains is incredble.
I have my own domain name that I wildcard in Fastmail, which means I can enter whateverthefuckIwant@domain.com and it'll be delivered.
Then I have several rules set-up to autotag depending on the address the email is going to.
Their interface is slick, easy to use, not too cramped and not too spacious, lovely contrast, just pleasant to be in.
All of that, along with a calendar with easy CalDAV support, notes in Markdown, and generous cloud storage which I mainly use for file transfer between my devices make the £5.40 I spend on it monthly an absolute steal.
I share Linus Torvalds' view on AI for programming: it is a tool, a very useful one at that, but like all tools it needs someone who knows how to use it to use it effectively.
This response is approaching AI as a technology, not "Big AI" and it's miriad of ethical issues. A purely technical viewpoint.
There is ambiguity on this blog post as to whether Claude wrote the whole thing from scratch or it took an assistive role; I have nothing against purely agentic coding, or vibe-coding, but for something as crucial as your display server, I don't trust even the leading frontier models for that yet.
This person's concept of developing, or at least designing (as is my preferred term when referring to agentically-written programs), all their software is very cool and has inspired me to contemplate some of my own tools. But again, I don't think I'll be writing my own X server or Wayland compositor anytime soon.