I've Sold Out (mariozechner.at) AI

Mario Zechner says he has joined the Earendil team and will “take pi” as a coding agent, explaining his history of OSS-to-commercial transitions and the pain he saw when key projects like RoboVM went closed-source after being sold. He describes growing interest from VCs and large companies in pi, but says he does not want to run a VC-funded company focused only on pi, prioritizing family time and avoiding the stress and community-betraying dynamics he experienced before. The post also recounts how Zechner met Armin and others in the “Vienna School of Agentic Coding” circle and how collaboration around agentic coding led to this decision.