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ssaboum··on Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe
it's disabled by default and only on MRs if you launch it
ssaboum··on Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe
it's not
ssaboum··on 1.8x faster than GitHub Actions
a first draft of benchmark between rickub and github's CI systems
ssaboum··on Not everything is AI or Agents
With Generative AI we're now talking about "buying intelligence" — but we've always been buying intelligence. We just bought it in different forms.
ssaboum··on Good software knows when to stop
not exactly what we're asking of database, don't you think ?
ssaboum··on For a new golden age of FOSS
Of course but the investments needed in obfuscations and the bugs introduced are orders of magnitude more important. It looks a lot like the struggle between ad providers and ad blockers - the ad blockers may be lagging behind but eventually they catch up. Same things with scrapping
ssaboum··on For a new golden age of FOSS
reverse engineering stays under "fair use" when it's for interoperability purposes
ssaboum··on For a new golden age of FOSS
most models are built on theft anyway, especially if you take the GDPR viewpoint
ssaboum··on For a new golden age of FOSS
that's a good point - the reformulation from AI tools is as you say "eroding the teeth" of the GPL based solutions - but the cost to make these solutions is dramatically reduced.

I'd even go further and say that the biggest problem of free software has always been the lack of frontend/designer willing to put in the contributions to make the UX a pleasant experience.

I guess we could argue that with the frontend skills of recent models it's also getting better.

Now the question will be after all that how much we will be willing to pay for a slightly better integrated experience ?

ssaboum··on For a new golden age of FOSS
Is AI the last stroke that will kill open source and free software maintainers ? It's clear the situation escalated quickly - but I'd argue that it can trigger a new golden age of Free and Open Source Software.
ssaboum··on Arkhn's Data Platform Goes Agentic
Secure AI Access to Healthcare Data with MCP Support
ssaboum··on Object oriented programming deemed irrelevant
always