As models improve, scaffolding falls away: Axolotl moves integrations out of core
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-18
Axolotl maintainer Teknium announced a test run of pulling integrations out of the core codebase into maintainer-owned repos — less user confusion, less bloat, and fewer people wandering off the happy path. MoonL88537 drew the broader takeaway: 'As the models improve, the scaffolding falls away.'
The exchange touches a real question for open-source AI tooling: are the engineering scaffolds built around models becoming obsolete as raw model capability rises?
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