It’s so when it links to local bookshops and libraries, you can be directly be taken to the book when ISBN search is available. Given the site’s purpose is to put “independent bookstores front and centre”, not all of those small business are going to be able to display stock levels online

The bookshop data is crowdsourced, so the project relies on people suggesting bookshops and libraries. You can even raise a pull request.

In case anyone is curious, this is the original post on X.

I have noticed the repository lacks CONTRIBUTING.md. If you want to set some rules about contributing, I would have added them there, instead of creating a Markdown file specific for agents. I’m very much of the philosophy that you should write documentation for humans, which has the added bonus that it will also be consumed by agents.

I wonder if we’ll end up in a situation of open source projects with closed source tests. Though I don’t know how that would work, because how would you contribute a new feature if the tests are closed? 🤔

I think there’s many solutions to this, including setting a minimum account age to accept pull requests from, or using Vouch.

Even if the bubble pops, the existing large language models will remain, as will AI assisted coding.

I had originally meant to post it here, but I accidentally posted it to a different instance.

There is Whisper IME.