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D2 Is Non-Profit

45 pointsby alixanderwangyesterday at 7:11 PM16 commentsview on HN

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dacortyesterday at 11:06 PM

Really happy to see this - A few months ago the D2 `play` site looked like it was down or unreachable and I was pretty bummed. It came back, but it did make me wonder about the future of the project - awesome to see that TALA will be released, sorry to hear the company behind it is shutting down.

wpstoday at 12:54 AM

> D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI.

This is an interesting twist. While I get the rationale, I remain a bit concerned. I do hope the project remains successful, d2 is great!

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aitchnyutoday at 6:35 AM

Tangential, do LLMs generate D2 code as easily as Mermaid and do tools like Github and Confluence render them?

anintegertoday at 1:06 AM

Just to be clear, this doesn't seem to be based on Walter Bright's D language. Maybe people already know that, but I didn't.

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sea-goldyesterday at 10:20 PM

So is TALA[1] continuing to be developed and/or being open sourced?

[1] https://github.com/terrastruct/TALA

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nf-xtoday at 12:04 AM

Oh, does that already integrate with GitHub? Need to check how it deals with layouts and arrows in comparison to Mermaid

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_defyesterday at 11:22 PM

I'm confused - why is hackclub (a project dedicated to teens) financing this project maintained by an openai infra person?

triyambakamtoday at 1:08 AM

> D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI. I welcome AI contributions and will use AI to review your AI, etc. The exception is writing -- I will author all blog posts and comms without AI.

Really cool, seems like the right balance.

crazy1_today at 2:50 AM

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