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I'm Jared, and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, January 19th, 2026.

After nearly 10 years, the jQuery team has released a new major version, 4.0.

Of that library so good, it still runs on about 71% of all websites.

Many of the breaking changes are removing features, more proof of its transcendence.

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.