The software business after code scarcity
Drupal founder and Acquia co-founder Dries Buytaert argues that as AI makes code cheaper to generate, software companies will increasingly need to build businesses around dependability and operations …
Drupal founder and Acquia co-founder Dries Buytaert argues that as AI makes code cheaper to generate, software companies will increasingly need to build businesses around dependability and operations …
Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal, implemented Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for his site's search endpoint after the 2026-07-28 protocol revision removed the initialization handshake and sessi…
Responsibility for AI harm should fall on those who control the relevant choices, not solely on model release decisions, argues a developer who supports open-weight models. The principle that responsi…
Drupal contributor Dries Buytaert presented a series of AI experiments to the Drupal AI Learners Club on April 2025, including Drupal Digests, a tool that uses AI to summarize developments across Drup…
Dries Buytaert implemented the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification on his blog dri.es, publishing a manifest at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json that announces his site's search API to AI agent…
Dries Buytaert added support for the IETF Proposed Standard RFC 9727's `/.well-known/api-catalog` to his site dri.es, publishing a Linkset-format JSON document that advertises his site's search API an…
AI tools risk reinforcing privilege in open-source contributions, as access to advanced models and coding agents requires significant financial resources and expertise. Dries Buytaert argues that with…
Drupal's AI Initiative splits into two workstreams: Inside AI, led by Christoph Breidert, and Outside AI, led by Scott Falconer. Outside AI focuses on enabling AI agents to use Drupal externally, targ…
Drupal is evolving from a central content creation tool to a control layer for AI-driven workflows, supporting both external orchestration platforms and Drupal-native workflows. The Drupal AI initiati…
AI is unbundling content management systems into separate control and execution planes, commoditizing content creation while making governance layers more critical. The CMS remains essential for organ…
Dries Buytaert redesigned his personal website dri.es using Claude Code to generate a Drupal theme without writing any HTML or CSS himself. The new minimalist design includes a photo strip, updated se…
AI coding agents often prioritize legibility over capability, which can disadvantage Drupal despite its strengths for structured content and permissions. A field test with Claude Code ranked Drupal th…
AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex favor open-source software because it lacks permission barriers, but they still reject projects with high friction, abstraction, or verification cost…