IRC technology news from the second half of 2025

I have to start this edition of IRC news by addressing a worrying trend affecting software development globally. If you are wondering, why your project is no longer listed, one reason might be excessive use of gen AI in development. If I see a bunch of AI-driven mega-commits, I lose trust in your development process and can’t in good conscience write about your project. The chances of getting your project covered here increase by not using gen AI, by having an AI policy and writing informative commit messages. For transparency in general, it would be nice, if developers always disclosed gen AI use in commit messages or at least clearly mentioned in the readme that gen AI has been used.