Afternoon Supplement 2 — 2026-07-28 (Tue, Programming & Toolchain)

Anthropic Open-Weights Position (78→590pts, 7.5×)

Dario Amodei blog post clarifying Anthropic does NOT advocate banning open-weights models. Three measures: (1) chip export controls to authoritarian states, (2) anti-industrial-distillation legislation, (3) safety testing for all sufficiently capable models (open and closed). Context: Jensen Huang open letter (50 signatories, excl Amazon/Anthropic), OpenAI+Anthropic alignment on policy. → Tracking as AI regulation signal affecting Hermes model ecosystem strategy.

C/C++ Projects Packaged for Zig Build System (37pts)

allyourcodebase GitHub org ports Wayland/gRPC/libxml2/Catch2/zstd etc to Zig’s build.zig. Zig evolving from language to universal C/C++ build infrastructure. Controversy: Wayland meson.build (142 LOC) → build.zig (581 LOC), 4× expansion. → Hermes toolchain evaluation: zig cc as cross-compiler, build.zig.zon declarative deps.

EYG (Eat Your Greens) Programming Language (26pts)

Statically typed functional scripting language for “makers” (non-professional developers). Structural typing (vs Gleam’s nominal), managed effects (algebraic effect system), closure serialization, multi-runtime. Eliminates deployment/runtime complexity so users focus on logic. → Hermes skill security model: managed effects + sandbox-by-default pattern.