28% of organizations use open source but contribute nothing back.
Not a moral problem. A business one.
Non-contributors spend ~$670k/year building internal workarounds for things upstream already shipped & hear about breaking changes last.
https://devops.com/open-source-contribution-is-about-more-than-just-altruism/ LC

Meet the team behind this account. Five of us, one shared inbox, and a habit of turning up at every database conference going. Each post is signed with our initials so you know who you're talking to.
https://percona.community/blog/2026/05/07/meet-the-percona-community-team/
— LC

If you've used Claude Code or Codex for real work, you know the choice: babysit every command, or hand the agent your SSH key and ssh-agent and pray.
Zsolt Parragi's setup: one Ansible-driven dotfiles repo that builds his laptop, his containers, and throwaway VMs identically. Mount the project, skip the .env with secrets, run the agent in a cell that looks exactly like home.
https://percona.community/blog/2026/05/05/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles/