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2,465 stars, Apache-2.0, targeting LLM and VLM post-training, describing itself as co-evolving with upstream slime, pushed within the hour. That 6.6:1 PR-to-issue inversion is the most PR-heavy backlog in today's sample, and a backlog that lopsided usually means an internal team pushing branches through a public fork rather than an external contributor base. Read it as a company's work-in-public, not a community project. GitHub
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One Python file wiring a model to exactly one tool, bash, with the system prompt loaded from a file the agent can rewrite. Tools, memory, skills, conventions all have to be grown by the agent session by session into a self/ directory that persists. Model access goes through Si...
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The decision, covered by Simon Willison, frames the ban as strategic: maintainers invest time reviewing contributions to mentor developers into trusted long-term contributors. If an LLM wrote the code, that mentorship is wasted. The wrinkle: Bun (acquired by Anthropic) runs a...
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