🧑‍💻 Open source

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More power, less complexity

The new triggers and conditions make Home Assistant automations more approachable, more powerful, and easier to extend without taking away the power underneath.

10 min read

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Open source won. That is why LGTM stopped being enough

Open source became critical infrastructure. That success changed what pull request review means, especially for projects like Home Assistant that millions of households now depend on.

5 min read

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Open source was not ready for AI-speed contributions

AI did not create the maintainer burden problem in open source. It accelerated it. Contributors are being amplified, but maintainers are still the verification bottleneck.

8 min read

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Your editor is a supply chain security risk now

Developer tooling is part of supply chain security now. Editors, extensions, CLIs, language servers, and AI tools live next to the credentials maintainers use to publish software.

10 min read

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