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New comment by rgilliotte in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

rgilliotte — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:39:49 +0000

Totally agree

The value for Anthropic / OAI is that they have a strong interest in becoming the "default" agent.

The one that you don't need to install, because it's already provided by your package manager.

New comment by rgilliotte in "A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source"

rgilliotte — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:25:10 +0000

Fair point, and honestly at work I'd push back the same way: shipping a custom tunnel solution when mature ones exist? Why?

But for personal projects I think the calculus is different. Rebuilding something is great to understand how it works

New comment by rgilliotte in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

rgilliotte — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:22:08 +0000

Looking at the commit history, this came together pretty fast. Assuming it's AI-assisted (hard to know for sure), it's a good example of the opposite of the "AI replaces developers" narrative.

AI is making whole categories of projects viable that simply weren't before. Not because they were technically impossible, but because they were too time-consuming for a niche audience to justify the effort.

Thanks for the cool project! (testing now)