Dimitris Kargatzis

Hard moments for open-source maintainers right now - they re getting flooded.
We re seeing repos like tldraw auto-closing pull requests because of AI-generated noise. The code may be syntactically fine, but the context isn t there, and review cost explodes.
We ve been polishing our open-source project specifically around cases like this: reducing low-context, high-noise PRs before they land in a maintainer s inbox.
I wrote about why PR review needs to evolve from:
checkbox enforcement signal interpretation
Topics covered:
- AI-generated PR noise and low-context changes
- Why looks correct isn t enough anymore
- How agentic analysis can surface why a PR is risky before merge
- Where static rules and agentic guardrails should coexist
Our approach is intentionally defensive, not prescriptive.
If there are review patterns you re seeing that aren t covered yet, happy to turn them into new rules - that feedback loop is the whole point.
Read more here: https://medium.com/p/30c41247db5a
There s a preview setup at https://watchflow.dev where you can try rules in analysis mode before enforcing anything.
It s fully open-source, can be self-hosted, and the idea is to experiment safely: see what would be flagged, why, and how contributors would experience it - without blocking PRs by default.

I have come across several statements such as: a single person cannot raise money on their own (you need to be in a team of at least 2 people), it is not worth it because there is pressure on you, etc.

• What is your experience with raising money?

• What did it give you, and who did you raise it from?

• What do you think helped you to a large extent to get the raise?

Audits like SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA often feel endless gathering evidence, aligning policies, and proving compliance across teams.

In this new piece, our CEO @stelios_sotiriadis breaks down the real pain points behind audit chaos and how we ve been rethinking the process at Warestack making compliance a natural outcome of good engineering practices rather than a fire-drill at the end.