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What seems to be typical these days is that big companies ship the first tool very fast, in poor condition (applies to Gemini CLI as well), and then let the OSS
by nicce 1y ago
What seems to be typical these days is that big companies ship the first tool very fast, in poor condition (applies to Gemini CLI as well), and then let the OSS ecosystem fix the issues. Backend is closed so the app is their best shot. Then after some time the company gets the most credit and not all the contributors.
- gavinray 1y agoI tried to use Jetbrains official Kotlin MCP SDK recently and it couldn't even serve the MCP endpoint on an URL that was different than what the default was expected to be... They had made a bunch of hard-coded assumptions
- nicce 1y ago> They had made a bunch of hard-coded assumptions Or they simply did that because it is much faster. Adding configuration options requires more testing and input handling. Later on, they can then accept PR where someone needs it a lot, saving their own time.
- mkagenius 1y ago> then let the OSS ecosystem fix the issues That's precisely half of the point of OSS and I am pretty much okay with that.