xophmeister/wean

wean is a small shell script whose purpose is to make you use AI coding tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot a little less. The author was inspired by philosophical ideas about how relying too heavily on a tool can make work feel disconnected from the person doing it, and built wean as a lighthearted but genuinely functional way to push back against that. Rather than blocking an AI tool outright, wean wraps around the command you normally run and adds a start up delay before the tool launches. Each time you use it in a day the delay grows longer, following an exponential pattern, and a message reminds you that you are meant to be in control of your own work. The delay resets automatically at the start of each new calendar day, so the friction builds up as you lean on the tool more and eases off if you take a break. On NixOS or with the Home Manager tool, wean is distributed as a Nix function you can drop into your system configuration to wrap any package's binary, such as claude or GitHub Copilot's CLI. For people who do not use Nix, the project also includes a plain wrapper template script that can be copied, renamed, and pointed at any binary you want to slow down, by editing two file path variables inside it and placing it earlier in your shell's PATH than the original tool. The author is upfront that the whole idea is trivial to bypass since it is just a wrapper script, but the point is not to make it impossible to skip, only to introduce enough of a pause that you think twice before reaching for an AI agent out of habit.