Mastodawn

Pretty sad.

Jazzband, the #python/(heavily #django) OSS group is shutting down due to, among other things, AI slop.

“What happened

The slopocalypse
GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable”
This model underpinned a lot of that ecosystem. I have to wonder what happens to several of these projects.

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

Jazzband - News - Sunsetting Jazzband

Joel Rivera Mar 10

Child’s Play
https://open.substack.com/pub/harpersmagazine/p/childs-play?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Child’s Play

“The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses,” writes Sam Kriss.

Harper’s Magazine

Joel Rivera Feb 27

Armin Ronacher Jan 18

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

Joel Rivera Feb 27

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/ #ai #agents

fast.ai - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

Joel Rivera Feb 22

Using #openclaw make me went into the #agentic rabbithole for real. Now I really get the hype. Deployed in a vm with a telegram bot, using gemini pro as the default model.

Joel Rivera Feb 13

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ troll o true dystopic future NOW? #ai

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

The Shamblog

Joel Rivera Jan 17

"Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/

#duckdb

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

Why DuckDB has become my go-to tool for data processing, offering simplicity, speed, and powerful features.

Joel Rivera Nov 23

"The time to develop has reduced but the time to review has increased" about #ai #code and the tendency of making small stupid mistakes or irrelevant statements, obvious after careful review.

Joel Rivera Oct 18

Every time I hear this phrase "Res extensa" , my mind: #filosofía #philosophy