Nicholas C. Zakas

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My favorite use of AI is debating architectural choices. Now that Claude and GPT are less sycophantic, it's fun to push back and see what I learn. Gemini is still my favorite for this as the least sycophantic of the bunch.

If you haven't been able to tell, I've had quite the existential week related to open source. I'm now thinking hard about how to change how ESLint is organized to better account for the current state of open source.

Part of the calculus of whether or not to start a new JavaScript-based open source project today is how quickly will someone at Cloudflare decide to use unlimited tokens to port it to Rust.

I’m not a fan of this future.

Open source has lost a lot of the appeal to me. When you send an issue or PR generated by an AI, and I have AI review it, the collaboration I so enjoyed is lost. But that's the way it has to be. Humans can't possibly do all this reviewing, nor is it fair to expect humans to work with someone else's agent to get the PR finished. I think I'm in mourning.