Navigating AI-Generated Content and BDFL Role in Software Projects

Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!

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Featuring:

• Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• curl turns 26 today
• My BDFL guiding principles
• The I in LLM stands for intelligence
• tiny-curl
• Verified curl
• How to verify a curl release
• github.com/curl/trurl

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