Building the developer experience for the post-2025 era.
The way we build software is fundamentally changing. AI coding agents are becoming trusted collaborators, not just autocomplete tools. This shift demands new patterns, new guardrails, and new ways of thinking about the human-AI development workflow.
Modern Tooling creates open-source projects that embrace this future while keeping humans in control.
aloc - Semantic LOC Codebase Analyzer
A convention for marking documentation audience: human-crafted content that should be preserved vs. AI-maintainable content that agents can freely update.
- Protects human voice — Prevents AI from homogenizing carefully crafted documentation
- Enables AI efficiency — Lets agents confidently update technical reference material
- Simple convention — Just a
<!-- doc-audience: human -->comment at line 1
- Humans stay in control. AI assists, humans decide.
- Boring is good. No clever abstractions. No magic.
- Optional always. Nothing here is required.
- Clear boundaries. Separate concerns, reduce coupling.
These projects are open source and welcome contributions. Star the repos, open issues, or submit PRs.