Bryan Cantrill
@bcantrill.bsky.social
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
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January 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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There are two different questions there for @ahl.bsky.social and me: the challenges of difficult people -- and of remote work. On the former: we try to not have that problem by hiring very, very carefully -- and we will err on the side of discarding people where we fear that they are difficult.
January 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
There are two different questions there for @ahl.bsky.social and me: the challenges of difficult people -- and of remote work. On the former: we try to not have that problem by hiring very, very carefully -- and we will err on the side of discarding people where we fear that they are difficult.
Boot the Dog will thank you to not so demean him!
January 15, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Boot the Dog will thank you to not so demean him!
Like, this is performance art, right?
January 14, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Like, this is performance art, right?
For open source software, it is going to be REALLY hard to show damages: it's... open source.
January 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM
For open source software, it is going to be REALLY hard to show damages: it's... open source.
So, I think this is a concrete embodiment of many things (and runs contrary to RFD 576 in quite a few ways!), but I think copyright infringement is honestly the least of it -- and is at best murky (it would be infringing on... a fork of the project?)
January 13, 2026 at 11:19 PM
So, I think this is a concrete embodiment of many things (and runs contrary to RFD 576 in quite a few ways!), but I think copyright infringement is honestly the least of it -- and is at best murky (it would be infringing on... a fork of the project?)
Sorry to disappoint. Please read the entire RFD, because our (my) position is quite a bit more nuanced than that -- but I also don't think that "using AI is immoral" and nor do I think it is "based on theft" (and I also think such strident language is unnecessarily divisive).
January 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Sorry to disappoint. Please read the entire RFD, because our (my) position is quite a bit more nuanced than that -- but I also don't think that "using AI is immoral" and nor do I think it is "based on theft" (and I also think such strident language is unnecessarily divisive).
They generally don't, actually -- and it's immaterial regardless as those clauses (such as they exist) dictate attribution when a component is included as part of shipping software, not the consumption of the software itself as a corpus.
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 AM
They generally don't, actually -- and it's immaterial regardless as those clauses (such as they exist) dictate attribution when a component is included as part of shipping software, not the consumption of the software itself as a corpus.
Sorry the question is not about books -- it's about software.
January 12, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Sorry the question is not about books -- it's about software.
I don't think it's an existential threat to the profession of software development. I also think it's fine (of course!) if some choose to not contribute to open source -- but I also predict that open source contributions are going to go up quite a bit.
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I don't think it's an existential threat to the profession of software development. I also think it's fine (of course!) if some choose to not contribute to open source -- but I also predict that open source contributions are going to go up quite a bit.
Are you going to answer the question? Because permissive licensing is permissive -- and the details matter!
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Are you going to answer the question? Because permissive licensing is permissive -- and the details matter!
What license are we talking about here?
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
What license are we talking about here?
It IS a dubious argument -- and I personally think that open source contributors using that language serves to minimize the (much better founded) complaints from visual artists and authors
January 12, 2026 at 12:53 AM
It IS a dubious argument -- and I personally think that open source contributors using that language serves to minimize the (much better founded) complaints from visual artists and authors
Well, I don't think it's an existential threat to open source -- to the contrary, in fact!
January 12, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Well, I don't think it's an existential threat to open source -- to the contrary, in fact!