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> So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. That was true before the "AI era" as well.
by thayne 5mo ago
> So that anyone could tweak it however he wants.
That was true before the "AI era" as well.
- zakirullin 5mo agoWell, yes. Just now, any regular user can clone the repository and ask an LLM to tune it to his needs.
- finghin 5mo agoI never thought about this before, and it hasn’t been mentioned significantly in the vast amount of AI threads I read here. But it’s a really good point as skeptical as I am (in mid-2026) of AI first codebases
- zakirullin 5mo agoBTW, this is not an AI codebase :) It was mostly crafted by hand. Let's say, I've saved some "complexity space" for LLM to add features on top. In other words, the project has dumb-simple code right now, and it is ready to hold some amount of "tech-debt" from an LLM.
- finghin 5mo agoInteresting and probably prescient approach, good luck
- adam_beck 5mo agoTanner Lisnley did this with React. He didn't share it but talked about his experience. Basically, he re-wrote React with only the parts he was interested in. Sort of like his own version of Preact. You might be interested in his blog post about the subject: https://tannerlinsley.com/posts/projecting-react https://tannerlinsley.com/posts/projecting-react