#opensource

I asked an open-source app to take my plugin into its own code. Minutes later a robot blocked it: one of my contributors hadn't signed the contract. The contributor was Claude.

I've never met most of my team. One made the model, one ported it, one shrank it, one merges the code, one tested it in Andalusian Spanish. I learned who most of them were from a page my AI kept.

I asked my AI to build a plugin for the newest speech model I'd heard about that morning. It came back: done, everything streams, just start it on your GPU box. I don't have a GPU box.

It started with a fish tank. The next day that silly free fish tank had talked me out of paying to run my own blog.

One morning I opened Postman and my work was gone. Blank. Their service was down, my collection lived on their servers, and there was nothing to do but wait — and it wasn't even the first time.

An app I'd used for years launched perfectly on my new Mac — three copies of it at once, all alive in Activity Monitor — and not one of them showed its little bat icon in the menu bar.

This spring I spent weeks patching a dictation app until it behaved. This morning I threw all of that work away — and it was the best upgrade I've made this year.