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did something happen?
Well, not really, but… *wearily gestures at the state of the world*
Remember that song from 20 years ago:
can only get better!
can only get betterrrr!I still think about that sometimes
I literally have no idea what you mean
*lobs another vibe coded PR straight at prod*
At least in the software world, AI. It’s completely sucking the soul out of it for me…
I would say there are a lot of tools that become important and get bought by Cloudflare/AWS/OpenAI/Anthropic and are never the same again.
Edit: since writing this Cloudflare bought and has completely deprecated Deno. Deno has now reached the extinction its name portents.
rsync is starting to glitch for some people, which is a HUGE deal.
And it’s glitching entirely because of social problems related to how sloperators have been exploiting the FOSS mindset.
Can you explain more?
the original graphic refers to this XKCD Sloperators are basically sending their little LLM agents into random repository with the prompt “make it better, don’t make it worse” for clout. those little projects upholding major infrastructure are now getting “refactored” by sloperators and their LLM agents, breaking shit they don’t understand. Or “cleanroom rebuilt” which causes original maintainers to take their shit offline.
cleanroom rebuilding is another variant of the slopification of FOSS, where techbros think they found a smart loophole around open source licenses by asking one Agent to write a specification of a project and then have a separate agent implement that specification in new code.
that way ““technically”” they’re not stealing any original code and can run it closed source / for profit / whatever the fuck.But that’s purely on the owner of the repo to not merge slop PRs.
I know it’s not easy to say no, but I literally got a 95k LOC PR the other day. All additions, 2300 files. That’s a hard no. I won’t even review that, I couldn’t even find the entry point to the main logic.
Microsoft angry birded it
When a Shahed drone nails the data center.
Yep, the rules we live by. One of these days, something is going to buckle, and it’s all going to come crumbling down.
