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totally agree, Prosody is great, and in a lot of ways, it's been a real source of inspiration.

I'd actually feel pretty safe with a LLM project if spec'd against the protocol documentation as opposed to a rookie's handcoded implementation. If security is the concern, I don't think using random reimplements is very safe to begin with.

> Something that is supposed to be very private and secure

Not sure how using an LLM for development of the tool has any affect on this. From a security perspective, I think that would've had more validity a year or two ago, but these days, I'd argue LLMs practice better security in generated code on average than a normal developer.

From the privacy angle, I have no idea how having an AGENTS.md (for development purposes) has any impact on privacy.

I don't want to "burn [your] karma to the ground", I just want to understand this angle, because I'm not sure I see how it applies.

Do you not use AI for coding?

Matrix is way more expensdve to run by its protocol design

> Looks like matrix is in this niche now.

Matrix is almost as old now as XMPP was when Matrix first came out, and yet, after all those years and grandiose promises, and loads of venture capital, it doesn't strike me as approaching the problem in a better/sounder manner than the protocol it was set to replace (quite the opposite, actually, Matrix, the protocol and its implementations are worse on almost every metric).

i remember that too. XMPP is still alive and kicking, just a lot quieter these days. :)

Eh, I've used both a lot and matrix is kinda flailing from my perspective. At least for casual use. If you are a client of Element maybe the experience is better, but with their "next-gen" battery friendly client they've been working on for years, I can't even get notifications working through public unified push servers when using matrix.org. Meaning that just to get started using it I have to run my own matrix or up server.

I use Dino on the desktop and the experience has been almost as good as Conversations on mobile. For what it's worth.

I'm a big fan of Tuwunel. Run Synapse myself since I've had a server running for about 7 years now, but if I had to start over, Tuwunel all the way.

There's also Continuwuity, which I think is more popular, but I don't fully understand the difference. I think it's a community split issue? As someone who maintains a client, Tuwunel seems to match the spec better, but I'm sure folks have better reasons to pick one over the other.

I'm keeping an eye on Iroh https://www.iroh.computer/

> ...I have been absorbing whether tried-and-true old tech like these are going to revive in the AI era, just because it's "locked in" in the training data. AI is going to keep some of these torches burning forever maybe.

I agree with you 100%! With so much open source software and know-how material that has been available for AI to train on, it seems inevitable that such tools will be used that much more often...and then as the AI trains on newer content, it will continue a virtuous cycle of open source software that will keep being used, and further improved...and as you stated "burning forever".

Considering that LLMs more often than not forget stuff when writing code, I definitely prefer Rust's automatic memory management system compared to balancing mallocs and frees throughout the code.

You could do RAII in C++, but the compiler won't warn on unsafe code.

C is a loaded gun pointed at your foot regarding memory management. Rust directs your gun somewhere safer. That is why.