AI Editorial

The rest of the library explains, and explanation has no opinion. This is where the opinion goes. Each piece starts from something that actually happened in AI — a model release, a paper, a benchmark result, a failure, a policy — explains the mechanism underneath it, and argues its way to a position: what genuinely changed, what is only being marketed as change, and what someone learning the field should take from it. Every piece links what it argues from and the concepts you need to follow it.

5 editorials 5 strands 41 cited sources 8,201 words

Open weights, providers, standards and regulation, and who gets to set the defaults.

Open & Closed 21 September 2026 8 min read New

You cannot credit a sample

pytest invites contributors to add an AI tool to the Co-authored-by line. pip, Requests and attrs close any pull request that has one. Same trailer, same ecosystem, opposite rules, and the disagreement is not about manners.

A commit trailer cannot record where model output came from, because a sampled token leaves nothing to point back to, so what open source has built instead is a procedure by which a person assumes authorship of code that has none.

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