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Governance models for company-backed open source
Governance models for company-backed open source projects affect contributor trust, decision speed, and community durability through structural choices.
2026-08-268 min read
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open-source
Telemetry in open-source developer tools, done ethically
Open-source developer tools can collect telemetry ethically through explicit opt-in, readable payloads, and architectures that prevent invasive tracking.
2026-08-258 min read
open-source
Building a plugin ecosystem developers actually use
Learn how to design plugin systems where third-party extensions solve discrete problems, depend on stable contracts, and remain maintainable long-term.
2026-08-248 min read
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Licensing AI-generated code: the questions nobody answers
Explore the unresolved legal questions around licensing AI-generated code when copyright law assumes human authorship and existing licenses don't address machine-created works.
2026-08-238 min read
open-source
What we learned open-sourcing our agent runtime
Goatfied open-sourced their agent runtime and discovered that external users exposed architectural assumptions through unexpected bug reports, feature requests, and integration needs.
2026-08-228 min read
open-source
Why we open-sourced Goatfied (and what we kept proprietary)
The reasoning behind Goatfied's open-source strategy — what's open and why, what stays proprietary, and how we think about trust, lock-in, and telemetry for an AI coding tool.
2026-05-218 min read
open-source
Fine-tuning vs RAG for code assistants: a production playbook
Fine-tuning bakes code patterns into model weights while RAG retrieves fresh context at inference time; production code assistants typically need both approaches.
2026-05-1510 min read
open-source
Prompt patterns for reliable test generation
Learn prompt patterns that treat test generation as a contract-driven workflow instead of one-shot compilation to produce tests that catch real regressions.
2026-03-0813 min read