Post #3840350

2026-07-15 18:56 UTC

It's getting really hard to get excited about new open source projects. First there's the endless flood of announcements. Then comes the real disappointment when you open the repo. The announcement is polished. The demo is slick. The codebase looks like three LLMs got into a knife fight.

Replies (6)

@muddle@infosec.exchange 2026-07-15 19:49

@fribbledom@mastodon.social I imagine that the commercial software world is much the same.

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@ori@hj.9fs.net 2026-07-15 19:48

Polished announcements and slick marketing have been anti-signals for about as long as I can remember. CC: @fribbledom@mastodon.social

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@yngmar@social.tchncs.de 2026-07-15 19:00

@fribbledom@mastodon.social Don't forget the installation instructions consist of "download docker image" and the documentation is a wiki with a few pages all reading "TBD".

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@kat@is.burntout.org 2026-07-15 18:58

@fribbledom@mastodon.social :-(

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@gekitsu@toot.cat 2026-07-15 19:30

@fribbledom@mastodon.social and it’s an electron app to some azure backend for what could’ve been an entirely local operation, and the only support channel is ‘join our discord’.

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@neal@social.typica.us 2026-07-15 19:35

@fribbledom@mastodon.social My code might be trash, but it's trash that I wrote/am writing myself.

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