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Open-source libraries with extensive test suites can now be autonomously cloned into competing implementations. What will it mean for open-source?

Provocative experiment from Drew Breunig, who designed a new library for time formatting ("3 hours ago" kind of thing) called "whenwords" that has no code at all, just a carefully …

Projects and notes from Metaist LLC

Talking fast and swearing more since 2004.

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Talking fast and swearing more since 2004.

Projects and notes from Metaist LLC

Ideas for an Agent-Oriented Programming Language

It’s everywhere. It’s the new hotness. If you’re not doing SDD are you even vibing dude? I first came across the idea from a software library with no code which describes a time conversion library as a markdown spec + test suite, in sufficient detail to allow a coding agent to implement it. My initial thought was that this seemed a cool idea, but not something that would scale. Next I came across Software Factories And The Agentic Moment via Simon Willison’s commentary How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code. StrongDM released Attractor, their coding agent, by only open sourcing the spec. The intent is that you just get Claude Code/whatever to do the actual implementation