AI transforms open-source

2026-04

Work in progress — outline for Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026.

1. The Setup — What Open Source Was Built On

• Human collaboration at its core: PRs, reviews, async debate
• The social contract: maintainers, contributors, trust built over time
• Why it worked (and why it was slow)

2. The Shift — Agents Are Entering the Room

• What's actually changing on the ground today
• Not "AI helps you write code" — agents as active participants
• The pull prompt request: a new primitive

3. Four Things That Are Changing

• Contributions — pull prompt requests → agent actions
• Workflows — CI/CD → continuous agent loops
• Trust — human review → auditing agent behavior
• Developers — coding → specifying and supervising

4. What This Breaks

• Provenance: who (or what) authored this?
• Maintainer burden: reviewing agent output at scale
• The trust collapse risk: when nobody reads the diff

5. How to Build in an AI-Native OSS World

• Designing for auditability, not just functionality
• New norms: what humans must own vs. what agents can do
• Practical patterns from the ground up

6. The Bigger Picture

• OSS as the leading edge — enterprise will follow
• The developer identity question: coder → supervisor
• Why this is an opportunity, not a threat