Armin Ronacher

The important part is doing with the right conviction for the right reason and with empathy.

I think you can and should. If you act defensively, then how much can you lift up people? I want them to be better off by not just a single percentage point. If you want things to improve significantly for people, then you also have to find ways to make larger bets while protect against the downside

I will be in London 17th to 19th of August if someone wants to meet up and chat about agents or whatever else :)

FSL: A License For the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral My personal commentary on Sentry’s new FSL license.

I think software licensing is a good proxy, but it applies to everything. From music to poems. You can read some of my thoughts here in longform where I wrote a bit about the two year exclusivity period for the FSL: lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/11/19/c...

So first of all I always operate out of optimism, not fear. So I'm generally more willing to try something, and if it fails, try something else. Why it's important: because I see too many ways in which great things never go anywhere because of fearful right holders + rent seeking by large corps.

Maybe, maybe not. That is not really clear. But that's not why I was asking. The right to create derived works is exactly what I'm after and what I want is to find a way that finds a better balance than what we have today. That is in fact, the entire point.

Why shouldn’t there be?

If the access does not involve the right to create derived works, it's kinda useless. I think if one is honest about the problems that this poses, then one needs to start dismantling the core pillars of the copyright system. But hey, I take anything that rattles it at this point.

And this is hardly a problem of software engineers. Software engineers have the money; they really don't have that problem. It's a particular problem of people that are starting out in their career and don't have access to something and less well of people and nations.

I think the problem that you're falling in here is that you're over-indexing on a rather small group of people compared to the overall problem that is copyright. And it's not even clear that the current system protects small artists in a sufficient way. I would actually argue it doesn't.

You also have to keep in mind that copyrights are a rather recent innovation, and particularly unregistered copyrights like we have today. They're about 50 years old, give or take. So in the grand scheme of humanity, this is all entirely unusual.

It is the copyright system that gives ground to these kinds of behaviors. Particularly if right holders are no longer using their powers correctly, you end up with loss of access, and this can, in the case of software, destroy or limit that product for generations forcing people to rebuild.

A lot of really important information is entirely unavailable unless you have the means and money to access it.

Sci-Hub has had an immeasurably positive impact in the world. Elsevier and other companies are rent seeking through copyright protections and inhibiting access to important research, particularly for people who are worse off. Same with lots of standards documents. ISO standards cost tons of money.

I don’t see that. I have been doing Open Source for years, most of the people follow licenses and very few cases ever go to court. Nobody forgets the authors.

I don’t think so. People that like their creators will continue to purchase them. In parts because you rather have the original than the copy (for reasons of value), on the other hand because not every book will be republished. You also can already pirate every book and yet people still buy them.

I think a conversation should be had where copyrights are narrower and expire in the range of ~5 years. There should also be more permitted uses of copyrighted material (education, training, personal sharing, AI training, remixes etc.)

I think there need to be some protections but they should not go nearly as far. Copyrights are at this point 70 years after the creator’s death. That’s too much.

Matthew Prince 🌥 on X: "Some supposedly “reputable” AI companies act more like North Korean hackers. Time to name, shame, and hard block them." / X Some supposedly “reputable” AI companies act more like North Korean hackers. Time to name, shame, and hard block them.

Personally, I hope AI might kill (today's) copyrights and patents. It's probably one of my longest held beliefs that they are bad for innovation. At the same time such a path needs to be walked carefully and I appreciate what cloudflare is doing here.

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I experimented with moving it into a sub agent. So far inconclusive results.

In Support Of Shitty Types A curious thing about types and agents

Some more agentic coding learnings: Types are great, except when they are not. Some thoughts on why TypeScript can both help and harm, and why Go does not suffer from this. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/4/shi...

I feel like this is only in certain circles where this happens and these very same circles will accuse one using AI tools for writing even if one isn't. I think that this is something that will just solve itself over time.

Sure, but now that community can no longer read any future content from there. The community does not even necessarily know. I am also part of that community and some people decided that this should no longer be permitted content. That seems like the worst of all approaches.

What happend to "then just don't read it" / downvote it / hide it?

Self-Hosting AI Models After Claude's Usage Limits | Peter Steinberger After Claude Pro changed to weekly limits, I explored self-hosting Qwen3-Coder-480B with 400k context windows. Here's what I learned about costs, alternatives, and why Claude Code still dominates the ...

Even if a blog might contain something LLM generated does not mean someone should ban the entire blog. Take this post for instance. Good luck finding that information anywhere else right now: steipete.me/posts/2025/s...

I think @steipete.me's blog is great, but I cannot submit posts to it to lobste.rs because they banned his blog for "startup slop" whatever that means.

Die Stadt @wien.gv.at hat übrigens wieder mal was ganz ausgefinkeltes gefunden um ihr Steuerloch zu flicken. Das melden eines Ausländers kostet jetzt 41 Euro. Auch als Gast. Zusammen mit den 90 Euro für ein Visum wird das langsam zum Luxus Verwandte einzuladen.

Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work Some of my attempts to make agents work better that just didn’t work.

I don't have a lot of new stuff to share that works, so here are some things that did not work. May it be of help to you. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/30/th...

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I am not sure if you are engaging here in good faith. Define it as you see fit.