Comment by devmor

For me, Open Source is extremely important because the tools are rapidly changing, and for reasons unrelated to my productivity. I use Copilot CLI at work, but now have a daemon that monitors it for updates and monkeypatches in my own custom hook framework.

This came about after 3 separate incidents where I went to use the harness and found it now provided a degraded experience because Microsoft unanimously decided to change some part of it without my consent.

I am a staunch believer that the most important thing a tool can do, other than its job, is provide a static experience until the user opts to change it. I use AI like a tool, because it is. I need it to behave the way I expect, or it's not actually useful to me.