Open source has always been about the freedom to inspect, modify, and distribute code. But as AI-driven agents become integral to how we build, manage, and iterate on digital platforms, these core open-source principles promise to take on a new relevance and intensity. We’re entering a world where contributions are not solely defined by human developers working in text editors. Instead, autonomous agents—systems capable of analyzing, refining, and improving software—are poised to make meaningful, machine-originated contributions. This shift signals a golden age for open source, where projects can advance at a pace and scale once unimaginable, propelled by a hybrid workforce of humans and intelligent agents.
Drupal’s architecture has always been more about structured data and machine-comprehensible logic than about straightforward human-friendliness. While early marketing or documentation may have framed Drupal as a CMS for webmasters and site builders, beneath that veneer the core system was designed around entities, fields, and taxonomies—concepts that are inherently easier for machines to parse and manipulate than for humans to intuitively grasp.
Dries mentioned the comparison towards the Sagrada Familia in the Driesnote in Barcelona and this really resonated with me. Especially after visiting it after Drupalcon. I thought I'd take the comparison a little further, you know, for the fun of it :)
In the Dropsolid diaries series, I talk in-depth about the journey of Dropsolid. It contains company insights, personal experiences, DXP and CMS market insights, and many other learnings I learned as the founder of Dropsolid.
