# source ai (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover source ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad](https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/) _2026-07-23 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball: ## [My First Encounter With a Political Spambot](https://tombedor.dev/political-spam/) _2026-06-26 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ I had my first encounter with a political spambot this week: a polite robot named Emma texted me wanting to talk about Israel. ## [If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort](https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/) _2026-06-11 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read? ## [IBM’s $5 Billion Bet on Open Source Security](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/06/01/ibms-5-billion-bet-on-open-source-security/) _2026-06-01 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ Project Lightwell aims to become the security backbone of enterprise infrastructure Open source software runs the world. It powers cloud platforms, AI frameworks, data pipelines, and enterprise applications that Fortune 500 companies depend on every day. For years, its security has been cobbled together largely by volunteer maintainers, community goodwill, and corporate donors via not-for-profit… ## [Announcing COSSmology – the definitive source for COSS business data](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/05/05/announcing-cossmology-the-definitive-source-for-coss-business-data/) _2026-05-05 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ Over the last two decades of advising commercial open source (COSS) companies, I ve seen the ecosystem mature from a handful of pioneers into a foundational pillar of the modern software industry. When I wrote From Project to Profit, my goal was to provide founders with a handbook for navigating that journey. But as the COSS Continue reading "Announcing COSSmology – the definitive source for COSS… ## [Patent Trolls in the Grocery Aisle: Aldi Takes on Intellectual Ventures](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/04/28/patent-trolls-in-the-grocery-aisle-aldi-takes-on-intellectual-ventures/) _2026-04-28 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ In April 2026, Aldi Inc., the no-frills German discount grocer beloved by bargain hunters across America, filed a preemptive declaratory judgment lawsuit against Intellectual Ventures (IV). (That link may be paywalled, so here is the docket information: Case 1:26-cv-00461-UNA, filed 4/21/26 in the District Court for Delaware.) This is not the first man bites shark Continue reading "Patent Trolls… ## [Coding agents have no moat](https://tombedor.dev/coding-agents-have-no-moat/) _2026-04-24 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ It's been a rough few months for Anthropic. ## [AI Creativity and the Instant Imitator Trap](https://tombedor.dev/creativity/) _2026-04-15 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ Sora is dead. Is this a temporary setback on the road to AI dominance of creative fields, or is there something more fundamental at play? Can AI be creative at all? ## [The Chardet Controversy: Open Source and the AI Clean Room](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/04/09/the-chardet-controversy-open-source-and-the-ai-clean-room/) _2026-04-09 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ In early March 2026, a dispute broke out over a Python library that most developers use every day. Chardet, a character encoding detection tool that powers a large portion of the Python ecosystem, became the unlikely center of a licensing debate. At its core, the controversy asks: can an AI rewrite of copyleft-licensed software be Continue reading "The Chardet Controversy: Open Source and the AI… ## [The Schisms of Open/Libre/Only Office](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/04/06/the-schisms-of-open-libre-only-office/) _2026-04-06 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ A governance crisis at LibreOffice and a licensing war over OnlyOffice have resulted in the biggest threat to open source office software since Oracle nearly killed the whole Open Office project back in the early 2010s. The open source office software world rarely makes headlines. Spreadsheets and word processors are the workhorses of desk work–useful Continue reading "The Schisms of… ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aFHrSnSVjTp8) _2026-04-06 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [AI Offices, Pokemon Speed Runs, and the Agent Harness Problem](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/ai-offices-pokemon-speed-runs-and) _2026-03-21 · Brian Douglas · Open Source Ready_ The hard part isn't spinning up agents. It's knowing what to hand them. ## [The design of AI memory systems](https://tombedor.dev/approaches-to-agent-memory/) _2026-03-21 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ For me, the question of memory is the most interesting subfield of AI. The first time I interacted with MemGPT (now Letta), I felt like I had crossed a Rubicon: memory transformed a simple question and answer bot into (what appeared to be) a being. ## [Is the Future of AI Local?](https://tombedor.dev/open-source-models/) _2026-03-21 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ Debate about whether the explosion of datacenter buildout will prove to be a worthwhile investment centers on two scenarios: ## [“Malus”: Is Copyleft Dead?](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/03/16/malus-is-copyleft-dead/) _2026-03-16 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ I can t tell you how many times I have heard people predict the death of open source software over the years. Each time some new tech trend arrives–crypto, source available licensing, SaaS–people predict the death of open source. Lately, people have been predicting the death of open source because of AI code generation, and while Continue reading " Malus : Is Copyleft Dead?" ## [GitHub using lessons from GitHub to build a GitHub that competes with GitHub](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/github-using-lessons-from-github) _2026-02-17 · Brian Douglas · Open Source Ready_ Former GitHub CEO and CTO are cooking ## [AI Bots Are Making Anonymity Untenable](https://tombedor.dev/ai-threatens-privacy/) _2026-02-13 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ This set off some interesting observations, with feelings being a mix of amusement and dread. ## [How to Write Good (Short) Docs](https://tombedor.dev/how-to-write-good-short-docs/) _2026-02-04 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." ## [The Great Subscription Pivot of January 2026](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/01/26/the-great-subscription-pivot-of-january-2026/) _2026-01-26 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ Every new year is an opportunity to reassess our priorities. This January, I took a hard look at my monthly software subscriptions. They say that the defining characteristic of Baby Boomers is a dozen paid-for but unused app subscriptions. I always like to play against type, and so I’m pretty good at cancelling them, but Continue reading "The Great Subscription Pivot of January 2026" ## [Death by a Thousand AI Pull Requests](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/death-by-a-thousand-ai-pull-requests) _2026-01-19 · Brian Douglas · Open Source Ready_ From Tailwind's 80% revenue drop to tldraw closing external PRs, the open source model is breaking in real-time ## [Actors Trademarking Themselves](https://heathermeeker.com/2026/01/16/actors-trademarking-themselves/) _2026-01-16 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ An article (sorry for the paywall) appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal under the title Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse–Actor plans to use trademarks of himself saying ‘Alright, alright, alright’ and staring at a camera to combat AI fakes in court. The WSJ article said, McConaughey’s lawyers believe that the threat Continue reading "Actors Trademarking Themselves" ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/uEYjjBMHjBJB) _2026-01-16 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [MCP is a Fad](https://tombedor.dev/mcp-is-a-fad/) _2025-12-12 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ Model Context Protocol has taken off as the standardized platform for AI integrations, but this popularity will be short-lived. ## [X Sues Over Open Source “Exfiltration”](https://heathermeeker.com/2025/12/09/x-sues-over-open-source-exfiltration/) _2025-12-10 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ This week, a new lawsuit cropped up relating to corporate open source releases. X Corp. v. Yao Yue and IOP Systems, ND Cal, filed 12/4/2025 X, the-micro-blogging-service-formerly-known-as-Twitter, sued Yao Yue, a former engineer at X, alleging theft of proprietary source code. The facts sprung from the fraught events surrounding Elon Musk’s purchase of the company Continue reading "X Sues Over… ## [Investing in the Red Zone: Commercial Open Source and the Bear Market](https://heathermeeker.com/2025/11/29/investing-in-the-red-zone-commercial-open-source-and-the-bear-market/) _2025-11-30 · heatherjmeeker · Copyleft Currents_ Note: This is an article from 2020 whose original link has broken. I ve posted it here for continuity. When business is on an upward trajectory, investing is not so hard. After all, the stock market always goes up over the long term. But it takes more work to identify good investments during down markets. Fortunately, Continue reading "Investing in the Red Zone: Commercial Open Source and the Bear… ## [Optimize for Humans](https://tombedor.dev/make-it-easy-for-humans/) _2025-11-26 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ I recently wrote about optimizing repos for AI, and since then I've been maintaining separate docs for humans (README, contributing guides) and AI agents (.cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, etc.). The problem? I keep writing the same information twice. ## [Optimizing repos for AI](https://tombedor.dev/optimizing-repos-for-ai/) _2025-10-28 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ A colleague recently complained to me about the hassle of organizing information in AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md. This is the mark of a real adopter - she has gone through the progression from being impressed by coding agents to being annoyed at the next bottleneck. ## [AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser](https://tombedor.dev/ai-is-a-floor-raiser/) _2025-07-29 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ A reshaped learning curve ## [Add Autonomy Last](https://tombedor.dev/autonomy-last/) _2025-07-07 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ A core challenge of using LLM's to build reliable automation is calibrating how much autonomy to give to models. ## [Unpacking MCP](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/unpacking-mcp) _2025-04-23 · Brian Douglas · Open Source Ready_ Exploring the evolution of open source software and its impact on the Tech landscape. ## [There is no open source AI.](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/there-is-no-open-source-ai) _2025-04-16 · John McBride · Open Source Ready_ The illusion of "open weights" and what people are calling "open source" AI. ## [The Whirlwind Pace of AI](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/the-whirlwind-pace-of-ai) _2025-04-01 · Brian Douglas · Open Source Ready_ Exploring the evolution of open source software and its impact on the Tech landscape. ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/19nCqXFFf44W) _2025-04-01 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [The Open Source Pledge](https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/the-open-source-pledge) _2025-03-26 · Brian Douglas · Open Source Ready_ Exploring the evolution of open source software and its impact on the Tech landscape. ## [Yes or No, Please: Building Reliable Tests for Unreliable LLMs](https://tombedor.dev/yes-or-no-please/) _2025-03-04 · Tom Bedor · Tom Bedor's Blog_ For LLM-based applications to be truly useful, they need predictability if I ask an AI personal assistant to create a calendar entry, I don't want it to order me a pizza instead.