When AI causes harm, responsibility should follow meaningful control. Model creators control training and release, product builders control permissions and deployment, and users control deliberate misuse. dri.es/responsibili...
Responsibility follows control
Open weights split creation, distribution, and use across different actors. Responsibility should follow control.
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I added Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) to my website, giving AI agents another way to discover its search API. dri.es/helping-agen...
Helping agents discover my site search with Agentic Resource Discovery
My API catalog helps agents that already found my site. Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, tackles the harder problem: being found at all.
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I added /.well-known/api-catalog support to my site so AI agents could discover my site's search. Zero found it on their own, but an Agent Skill closed the gap: dri.es/helping-agen...
Helping agents discover my site search with an API Catalog
I added /.well-known/api-catalog support to dri.es so AI agents can discover my search API and search my site efficiently.
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A CMO told me connecting a new DAM to her websites was quoted at ~$100K and three months. The reason? Three CMS platforms meant three integrations. That's the hidden cost of CMS fragmentation, and why more orgs are standardizing on Drupal: dri.es/the-cost-of-...
The cost of running multiple CMS platforms
Running multiple CMS platforms duplicates integrations, security, governance, and expertise. Standardizing on Drupal with different operating models reduces that cost while preserving flexibility.
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Some Open Source is simply shared. Some is stewarded as infrastructure. Naming the difference changes the conversation. dri.es/license-only...
License-only versus Stewarded Open Source
Some Open Source is simply shared. Some is maintained as infrastructure. Naming the difference changes the conversation.
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"Anyone can contribute" is not the same as "everyone has the same opportunity to contribute". AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source, but only if access and skill become shared, not private advantages. I wrote about it in dri.es/the-privileg... #opensource #ai
The privilege of AI in Open Source
AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source. But unless communities invest in access, it risks becoming a privilege of its own.
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Drupal's future in AI workflows is both inside and outside the CMS: supporting Drupal-native workflows, external orchestration, and the trusted handoffs between them. dri.es/drupal-role-...
Drupal's role in agentic workflows
Drupal's future in AI workflows is both inside and outside the CMS: supporting Drupal-native workflows, external orchestration, and the trusted handoffs between them.
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AI is not killing the CMS. It is unbundling creation from control. That may replace the CMS for simple publishing, but it makes the CMS more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or trusted across systems. dri.es/ai-and-the-g... #cms
AI and the great CMS unbundling
AI is not killing the CMS. It is unbundling creation from control. That may replace the CMS for simple publishing, but it makes the CMS more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or ...
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AI agents do not always choose the best software. They choose the path they can complete with the least effort. That gives open source an edge, but only if projects are easy to install, inspect, modify, and verify. New post: dri.es/friction-abs...
Friction, abstraction and verification
AI agents favor software they can easily install, run, change, and verify. Open Source software has a structural advantage over proprietary software, but only token-efficient Open Source projects may ...
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Drupal's reputation has not kept up with what the platform has become. dri.es/the-gap-betw...
The gap between Drupal and its reputation
Drupal is stronger than its reputation, but unless the community tells that story, the outdated one wins.
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The EU's sovereignty framework scores Open Source at roughly 4%. It should be a prerequisite, not a rounding error. dri.es/the-sovereig... #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty
The Sovereignty Prerequisite
The EU's sovereignty framework scores Open Source at roughly 4%. It should be a prerequisite, not a rounding error.
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AI is changing how code gets written, but it shouldn’t change the responsibility that comes with contributing Open Source code. dri.es/never-submit...
Never submit code you don't understand
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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Open source software is free to download. But the infrastructure behind it is not. Most Open Source projects are funded through a fragile mix of donations and goodwill. Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model! dri.es/open-source-...
Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model
Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on...
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Drupal turned 25 this year. We're celebrating at DrupalCon Chicago with a 25th Anniversary Gala. This is a separate ticketed event, and ticket sales close March 18. Come celebrate with us! dri.es/drupal-25th-...
Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala at DrupalCon Chicago
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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Four years ago, I created a Web3 webpage and walked away. The page is still online today, but most of the services I used are gone. The protocols improved, gas fees fell 1000x, but the commercial ecosystem thinned. Full four year scorecard on my blog: dri.es/my-web3-site... #web3 #ipfs #ens
My Web3 site survived four years of neglect
After four years of neglecting my Web3 site, does it still work? Plus, insights into Web3's progress for website hosting.
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Should Europe be building an equivalent of @microsoft.com or #Google? In his latest article, #EOSA Member Dries Buytaert (@drupalassociation.bsky.social)delves deeper into why open source is the most credible path to digital sovereignty. Check out Dries' latest blog now : dri.es/funding-open...
Europe needs digital sovereignty, and Open Source is the most direct path to it. But it requires more contribution-based procurement. More public money must flow upstream to Open Source maintainers, not just to integrators and resellers. dri.es/funding-open...
Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.
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Drupal turns 25 today. A quarter of a century. I captured 25 lessons from the journey. dri.es/25-years-of-... #foss #opensource #web
25 years of Drupal: what I've learned
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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This morning I made a small change to my site: I made every page available as Markdown for AI agents and crawlers. I expected maybe a trickle. Within an hour, I was seeing hundreds of requests from ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and OpenAI’s SearchBot. 😲 dri.es/the-third-au...
The third audience is AI
I made my website easier for AI agents and crawlers to read, and within an hour it was getting hundreds of requests.
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Blog post: When backward compatibility became an advantage dri.es/when-backwar... #drupal
When backward compatibility became an advantage
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its engineering team. AI isn’t killing open source though. It’s stress-testing business models built on "describable things". I wrote more about what this means for developer tools and where durable value lives: dri.es/ai-is-a-busi...
AI is a business model stress test
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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Blog post: AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations dri.es/ai-flattens-...
AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
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