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- So... The prediction is exactly what people have been doing since the turn of the century?
I put high odds on this one being correct.
by marcosdumay - It's funny, I got across this post because I'm interested in the Solid Protocol and the Malleable Software movement, but it doesn't seem to mention any of those .
Here they are, in case anyone's interested:
- https://solidproject.org/ - https://malleable.systems/ - https://www.inkandswitch.com/malleable-software/
by NoelDeMartin - Pi is a great example of this. I've used it as the basis for a fleet of agents I'm running on my server, but rather than using the Pi TUI I run it in headless-mode and have extended it to use XMPP as its communication layer so I can use any device with the same sessions, and so agents can talk to each other.
The Pi harness is built to be extended like this, and it's a joy to work with.
by pavo-etc - Having that working base that agents can then customize from is a great approach because you get some of the brownfield benefits where there are established patterns that it can continue to follow. This is often much faster and predictable compared to starting from scratch, where even though agentic development is fast you need to have a true dev mindset and think about everything.by genatron_ai
- Why should we believe someone who was so extraordinarily wrong about no-code before?by brabel
- Love this take. In the bio-imaging space, Napari is a great example of this. Wonderfully solid base, but extremely extensible since its just python all the way down.
There's something wonderful about having my coworker walk up with an issue, and being able to bang out a Napari plugin that solves their exact problem before lunch.
My order of 'tool escalation' usually goes: - Can I solve their problem from napari's inline terminal? - Can I solve it with a one-off script? - Can I solve it with a one-off script that creates a one-off plugin interface? - Should I add the plugin to our company-wide repo since this problem seems to occur a lot?
by momojo - That's the path I've been on with my Dropbox alternative [1]. The 80% is the fast core that focus on file management, the remaining 20% is coming via plugins which implement one of core interfaces so you can handle your own storage, authorisation, authentication, custom apps to handle file types, ... Fun fact, there is 10x more code in the various plugins [2] catering to everything than the core code that was supposed to be the 80%, unsurprisingly everyone needed a different 20%. Plus I find it cool that the guy who needed a gobd compliant log system that have ton of properties to keep auditors happy enforcing hash chained signed with rfc3161 does not contribute to making the system shittier for everyone else
[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive
- This is great insight, I agree with the author! Check out my [INSERT VIBE CODED GITHUB LINK] which follows these patterns!by watty