Dries Buytaert@Dries

Creator of Drupal, Drupal project lead, co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia. Young Global Leader at WEF. Building the world we want to exist in.

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Anyone paying for Open Source work should be able to check whether a vendor contributes. Open Source projects should take responsibility for making that easy by publishing contribution records. dri.es/the-60-second-procure…

The 60-second procurement test

Anyone paying for Open Source work should be able to check whether a vendor contributes. Open Source projects should take responsibility for making that easy by publishing contribution records.

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Open Source code and the stewardship around it have different economics. That distinction helps show what a project might charge for, what it must budget for, and how it could fund stewardship without making the code less open. dri.es/open-source-is-four-k…

Open Source is four kinds of economic goods

Open Source code and the stewardship around it have different economics. That distinction helps show what a project might charge for, what it must budget for, and how it could fund stewardship...

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Open source companies learned how to build valuable businesses when access to the code was free. AI is forcing the rest of the software industry to confront the same business-model question. dri.es/the-software-business…

The software business after code scarcity

Open source companies learned how to build valuable businesses when access to the code was free. AI is forcing the rest of the software industry to confront the same business-model question.

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Helping agents discover my site search with MCP: dri.es/helping-agents-discov… (Thanks for mcp-explorer, @simonw)

Helping agents discover my site search with MCP

MCP's new stateless protocol let me expose my site's search as an agent tool in fewer than 150 lines of custom PHP.

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When AI causes harm, responsibility should follow meaningful control. Model creators control training and release, product builders control permissions and deployment, and users control deliberate misuse. dri.es/responsibility-follow…

Responsibility follows control

Open weights split creation, distribution, and use across different actors. Responsibility should follow control.

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I added Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) to my website, giving AI agents another way to discover its search API. dri.es/helping-agents-discov…

Helping agents discover my site search with Agentic Resource Discovery

My API catalog helps agents that already found my site. Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, tackles the harder problem: being found at all.

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I added /.well-known/api-catalog support to my site so AI agents could discover my site's search. Zero found it on their own, but an Agent Skill closed the gap: dri.es/helping-agents-discov…

Helping agents discover my site search with an API Catalog

I added /.well-known/api-catalog support to dri.es so AI agents can discover my search API and search my site efficiently.

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A CMO told me connecting a new DAM to her websites was quoted at ~$100K and three months. The reason? Three CMS platforms meant three integrations. That's the hidden cost of CMS fragmentation, and why more orgs are standardizing on Drupal: dri.es/the-cost-of-running-m…

The CMS Fragmentation Tax

Running multiple CMS platforms duplicates integrations, security, governance, and expertise. Standardizing on Drupal with different operating models reduces that cost while preserving flexibility.

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Some Open Source is simply shared. Some is stewarded as infrastructure. Naming the difference changes the conversation. dri.es/license-only-versus-s…

License-only versus Stewarded Open Source

Some Open Source is simply shared. Some is maintained as infrastructure. Naming the difference changes the conversation.

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"Anyone can contribute" is not the same as "everyone has the same opportunity to contribute". AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source, but only if access and skill become shared, not private advantages. I wrote about it in dri.es/the-privilege-of-ai-i… #opensource

The privilege of AI in Open Source

AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source. But unless communities invest in access, it risks becoming a privilege of its own.

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Drupal's future in AI workflows is both inside and outside the CMS: supporting Drupal-native workflows, external orchestration, and the trusted handoffs between them. dri.es/drupal-role-in-agenti…

Drupal's role in agentic workflows

Drupal's future in AI workflows has two parts: helping people with AI inside Drupal, and helping agents and workflow tools use Drupal from the outside.

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Podcast: Talking digital sovereignty with James Kanter dri.es/podcast-talking-digit… #foss #opensource #sovereignty

Podcast: Talking digital sovereignty with James Kanter

In this podcast, James Kanter and I discuss how digital sovereignty can reduce governments’ dependency on foreign tech and strengthen Open Source.

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AI is not killing the CMS. It is unbundling creation from control. That may replace the CMS for simple publishing, but it makes the CMS more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or trusted across systems. dri.es/ai-and-the-great-cms-… #cms

AI and the great CMS unbundling

AI is not killing the CMS. It is unbundling creation from control. That may replace the CMS for simple publishing, but makes it more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or trusted.

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AI agents do not always choose the best software. They choose the path they can complete with the least effort. That gives open source an edge, but only if projects are easy to install, inspect, modify, and verify. New post: dri.es/friction-abstraction-…

Friction, abstraction and verification

AI agents favor software they can easily install, run, change, and verify. Open Source software has a structural advantage over proprietary software, but only token-efficient Open Source projects may...

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Speculation Rules changed my mind about prefetching: dri.es/speculation-rules-cha…

Speculation Rules changed my mind about prefetching

The Speculation Rules API allows conservative, intentional and respectful prefetching.

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Drupal's reputation has not kept up with what the platform has become. dri.es/the-gap-between-drupa…

The gap between Drupal and its reputation

Drupal is stronger than its reputation, but unless the community tells that story, the outdated one wins.

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The EU's sovereignty framework scores Open Source at roughly 4%. It should be a prerequisite, not a rounding error. dri.es/the-sovereignty-prere… #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

The Sovereignty Prerequisite

The EU's sovereignty framework scores Open Source at roughly 4%. It should be a prerequisite, not a rounding error.

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Drupal 12 will use Argon2id for password hashing by default. Existing passwords migrate automatically on next login. Most site owners never think about password hashing, so getting the defaults right matters most. 🛡️🎯💪 dri.es/drupal-12-switches-to…

Drupal 12 switches to Argon2id

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

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Final call: Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala Ticket sales close March 18 (only 2 days left) and tickets will not be available at the door. Let's celebrate 25 years of Drupal together! lnkd.in/eHjFaUbW

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AI is changing how code gets written, but it shouldn’t change the responsibility that comes with contributing Open Source code. dri.es/never-submit-code-you…

Never submit code you don't understand

AI changes how code is written, but not your responsibility to understand and review it before submitting a merge request.

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