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Anirudh Oppiliappan

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co-founder/ceo @tangled.org helsinki · https://anirudh.fi (i don't look at dm requests; please email me)

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Anirudh Oppiliappan@anirudh.fi · 5d ago

The issue with this is it inadvertently makes people start building inwards. Ecosystems are cool *post* mainstream adoption. If you build ecosystem too early you get what happened to Web3.

aly@aly.codes · 5d ago

I think this is true in some respect, but I think it missed the point of the ecosystem. When developers build tools and hooby projects on atproto, even if they're not instant money makers, they become advocates for the Atmosphere. That's what pays dividends.

dame@dame.is · 6d ago

hard pill to swallow for atproto developers/creators: 99% of potential users either do not care about, value, understand, or want to “own their own data” i see so many apps/projects lead with this “value prop”, but it’s not an important or meaningful consideration for most people

Anirudh Oppiliappan@anirudh.fi · last wk.

Hate to be the skeptic, but the open social web has never been and likely never will be the primary incentive for funding. Grants, sure—but venture, likely never.

Anirudh Oppiliappan@anirudh.fi · 2w ago

It's *incredibly* frustrating how lackadaisically Finnish companies operate. Our corporate insurance provider (If) had the company postal address entered incorrectly—thanks to their rep that punched it incorrectly over the phone, mind you—and we've received none of those invoices.

Anirudh Oppiliappan@anirudh.fi · 3w ago

Linus on LLM usage in kernel development. I will admit, it is a *bit* strange to see him state that Linux isn't a "social warrior" project and the stuff about technical merit—especially when they merged a code of conduct and subsequently "inclusive terminology". Be consistent, at least.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 at 19:01, Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> wrote: > > I think it makes the point of sashiko - helping maintainers - unachievable. If the point to not use > LLMs in general, let’s discuss this, not how to make each use case more complex. > > It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general Yes. And no, that's not the position of the Linux kernel. I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint. But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do. The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side. We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it. And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time. Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either. The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.