If you don't understand why people don't want them, you're probably trying not to. It's not that hard.

How can this possibly be accomplished? Even if every actor in the open source world with good to neutral intentions decides that this is anti-social behavior, that does absolutely nothing to secure your system against people with bad intentions.

A system that pulls in arbitrary unstructured text input and treats it as trusted instructions is insecure by design. Asking the entire world to sanitize your inputs for you is a choice - good luck with that.

As mentioned in the blog post, if your system is susceptible to this kind of "attack," what is your plan when someone with actual malicious intent gets involved?

Simple thought experiment. If you handed this same agents.md file (https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/grit/blob/main/AGENTS.md#sou...) to a human software developer and let them work on exactly the same goal, would their output be considered a derivative work?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. Time to log off for a while, I guess.

All the incentives nudge you towards less and less critical evaluation of the output. The results of careful evaluation are much harder to measure than "this guy is cranking out 10x the code compared to last year!" And while you were busy thoughtfully internalizing the output, the guy next to you has been letting Strega Nona's pasta pot go brrr and spew another thousand lines of spaghetti on top, ready for you to review. Eventually "lgtm" becomes the default, and "do you want me to go ahead and implement that for you" starts sounding like the only way to keep your head above water.

The biggest quality of life issue for me personally is the trackpad. Although support for gestures and so on has gotten quite decent in Linux land, Parallels only sends the VM scroll wheel events, so there's no way to have smooth scrolling and swipe gestures inside the VM, so it feels much worse than native macOS or Asahi Linux running on the bare metal.

Update - We are investigating reports of issues with many services impacting segments of customers. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation. Jun 17, 2025 - 19:53 UTC

I mean sure, if you go to painstaking lengths, you can trick your computer into making some noise that seems vaguely similar to the copyrighted work it was trained on, but I trust the consumer to make their own fair use evaluation.

It has trade offs in terms of memory usage and binary size, but Electron has already conditioned users to expect every todo and chat app to be 500mb on disk and use a gigabyte of ram at idle. In other words, if Electron would make sense for your project, but you want to use rust, this seems like a good fit.

If we don’t know what it even is, why is it so inevitable that we’ll be able to recreate it in another medium?

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

By the time the Hobbit movies were made, it was cheaper to make all the orcs into digital props than to hire and costume a bunch of actors, and everything looks like a video game.