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Illustration for an article on AI agents helping build a FreeBSD Wi-Fi driver for a MacBook Pro

How AI Agents Helped Build a FreeBSD Wi-Fi Driver for a 2016 MacBook Pro

A developer got Wi-Fi working on FreeBSD 15 for his MacBook's Broadcom BCM4350 chip with AI coding agents. The interesting part isn't the driver. It's why the first attempt failed and the second one worked.

Malik Shamir

Feb 24 6 min read 261

Illustration for an article on how AI is affecting open-source maintainers

Artificial Intelligence

Is AI Hurting Open Source? What curl, Tailwind and Matplotlib Tell Us

In early 2026, curl ended its bug bounty over AI-generated junk reports, Tailwind Labs laid off most of its engineers as AI cut its docs traffic, and an AI agent attacked a matplotlib maintainer. What these cases say about open source sustainability, and what maintainers and companies can do.

Malik Shamir

Feb 17 5 min read 527