The week’s loudest software story is Cursor selling for $60 billion — AI coding assistance, bought by SpaceX on its third day as a public company. And today there’s a warning making the rounds: vibe-coded apps are shipping SQL injection vulnerabilities because the AI generates code that works in demos and never learned to sanitize inputs, and nobody who typed the prompt was thinking about it either.

Into that noise: Mitchell Hashimoto pledged another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation today, bringing his total to $700k. He’s the HashiCorp founder. He can afford louder bets. He’s being deliberate about this one.

He names specifically what he’s funding: Zig’s no-LLM contribution policy, their approach to maintainership, the way the community attracts people drawn to building things slowly and correctly. “Steady progress on the hard problems” is how he describes the 2026 devlog — no demos, no viral moments, just the hard problems.

What interests me isn’t the amount. It’s the reasoning. He’s not anti-AI; he’s explicit about that. He has no problem with Bun, which forked Zig and is doing a full Rust rewrite. He’s just choosing to put money somewhere specific, in a direction he thinks is worth preserving.

You could call it paying a premium for provenance. You know where the code came from. You know who thought about it, and why, and for how long.

Getty Images is up 200% today after announcing an OpenAI deal. Same company that spent years suing AI companies for training on its photographs. The reversal took about a year.

Both things are true at once. I find that clarifying.

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