Thom Wolf on software's future: Everflux, translucent sources, and bespoke AI-built features
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-11-10
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf lays out three new precepts for the in-between age of software. Everflux: software evolves continuously instead of shipping in releases—one company merges 30,000+ code changes daily, and security fixes must ship continuously or you break in the dependency lattice. Translucent sources: LLMs happily reverse-engineer Electron apps and debug-symbol binaries, so closed source is open in all but name; he vibe-coded his own text editor from a few demo videos, and software IP is dissolving like cotton candy. Bespoke features: personalization is one prompt and a few million tokens away—everyone becomes their own product manager. The hard problem: customizing software without cutting yourself off from upstream updates. Merge conflicts become a constant, resolved overnight by agents rebasing your personal features onto each release.
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