Good read. The big elephant in the room though: you likely won't purely hand-code the Stable version for much longer. So where's that split? Prototype vs. Prod? Feature Flags? Canary? 2 codebase nightmare? All of this already exists.
The message that hits for me is that of AI being a destabilizer while simultaneously being an accelerator. The Speed/Scale suggestion won't address this. A codebase no one understands, growing at machine speed won't go away just because you drew a box around it. The fix is likely more mundane stuff like process and role shifts, smaller PRs, tests, tooling, ownership principles.
What I actually would be more willing to allow is a version of this that is built into macOS, runs locally, never phones home. If Apple Intelligence made an "AI sees everything on my screen", I might turn it on.
The specifics are crazier than most people realize. During the rename chaos, Steinberger called Altman to check if "Open"Claw was safe to use. That one phone call became the relationship that became the deal.
Before the forced rename, Claude was the default model, and Anthropic's own Constitutional AI research had inspired soul.md. The trademark enforcement accidentally created the introduction.
The part not getting enough attention is the governance gap, like the MIT license, foundation format, no IP transfer, etc. Good on paper. But the foundation hasn't formed yet, no board members, no governance documents, no clarity on trademark ownership or on the contractual rights OpenAI holds.
This is a brilliant, Love that timer, not sure why the exact time frame was picked though.
It makes me want to create a similar landing page for Apple to fix Spotlight Search. I remember when I used to be able to just find and launch apps on my Mac.
