Omega8.cc: Self-Driving Sea Monster

In December 2017, on Ægir's tenth birthday, Steven Jones of ComputerMinds joked that within ten years Ægir would be an AI, setting up cat gif websites for its own purposes. With fourteen months left on the clock we checked how the prophecy is doing. In BOA, our Ægir hosting stack, the agent which keeps a server current is called Skynet since a 2012 commit meant to replace boring welcome messages, the installer still pretends to charge your credit card as it did in 2010, and the family named after a Norse sea giant and his doorman, Ægir and Eldir, grew a Barracuda, an Octopus and this summer a Kraken. Since 2025 the Ægir 3 projects on drupal.org are maintained by us, after the prophet himself asked, fairly enough, whether they should be marked obsolete, and in 2026 the stack is built with AI tools: eleven stable releases against three last year, for Drupal, Drupal CMS and Backdrop sites. The AI stays on our desks and nothing on your server guesses, so only the cat gifs are late.