Jared

I'm calling it jQuery, it's the goat.

Okay, let's get into this week's news.

Agent psychosis.

Are we going insane?

Here's Armin Ronacher, quote, "...many of us got hit by the agent coding addiction.

It feels good, we barely sleep, we build amazing things.

Every once in a while that interaction involves other humans and all of a sudden we get a reality check that maybe we overdid it.

The most obvious example of this is the massive degradation of quality of issue reports and pull requests."

As a maintainer, many PRs now look like an insult to one's time, but when one pushes back, the other person does not see what they did wrong.

They thought they helped and contributed and got agitated when you close it down.

But it's way worse than that.

I see people develop parasocial relationships with their AIs, get heavily addicted to it, and create communities where people reinforce highly unhealthy behavior.

How did we get here and what does it do to us?"

We are all trying to grapple with what is perhaps the most dramatic change the software world has ever undergone.

In this post, Armin grapples with it right out there in public.

I appreciate him for doing that.

He's been a thought leader for many years, and it's comforting to know that even folks like him are struggling to see this new world clearly.

A social file system.

Dan Abramov starts this excellent article by praising the portability and effectiveness of the files paradigm.

Quote, apps and formats are many to many.