PAW critique continued: burying the GitHub repo undermines pre-product-market-fit growth
willcb · x · 2026-09-21
willcb follows up on his critique of ProgramAsWeights (PAW): projects like this grow on GitHub before mass-market fit, yet PAW jumped straight to a full community platform while burying its repo. The code snippets read like a build-with library à la DSPy, but it turns out to be just clients for a hosted service—while the marketing stresses it's all local—leaving the hosting rationale and user benefit unexplained.
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