Russ Cox’s Next Act: AI-Powered Help Agents for Open Source Projects

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2024-09-26 16:00:11

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When Cox stepped down as the Go language‘s tech lead in September, “I am not leaving the Go project…” he emphasized in his Aug. 1 announcement.

But besides discussing designs, answering questions, advocating for Go, and filing issues “from time to time” — and “working on a few potential new standard libraries”— Cox will also be shifting focus to an interesting new Go-related project that he started up in June. And Cox’s larger goal is to help all open source maintainers with a tooling architecture that can “automate various mundane things that a machine can do reasonably well…”

“Maintainer toil is not unique to the Go project,” the home page asserts points out, “so we are aiming to build an architecture that any software project can reuse and extend, building their own agents customized to their project’s needs.”