Maintaining it is becoming more costly. The increasing burden of review on FOSS maintainers is one example. AWS going down because an agent decided to re-write a piece of critical infrastructure is another. We are rapidly creating new kinds of liability.

unlikely, FOSS is mostly driven by zero-cost maintenance but AI tools needs money to burn. So only few FOSS project will receive sponsored tools and some definitely reject to use by ideological reasons (for example it could be considered as poison pill from copyright perspective).

"Local First" implies that something is second.

To me it implies it is designed to be used local, instead of an afterthought feature.

Thats like describing a mobile only game as "mobile first", even when the developers have no plans to ever port it to other platforms. Its a mobile game.

The grep command line utility isn't local first. Its just local software.

This one time... I went downstairs to check on the laundry. I thought it was done... But... It wasn't. I had to come back 10 minutes later.

Ugh, that's the worst. Sometimes I just stand there for 5 minutes waiting for it to finish.

this is a pretty good poem

Well, it looks like they're not allowing it.

bash knowledge is probably a quickly dying thing.

hey, gemini, how do I...

and? placebo is often effective.

It’s been this way forever.

This is one of many reasons we are taking all our current and future private repos off of GitHub.

Facilitating peer to peer connections is cheap.

Just like cloudflare, a healthy free offering makes lots of happy/loyal developer users. Some of those users have business needs / use for the paid features and support and will convince their managers to buy in.