Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation
AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
We Can Just Build Things
Build the tools your community needs — production-grade, privacy-respecting freedom tech, made with an AI agent and grounded in a verified, values-aligned catalog (Nostr, AT Protocol, and beyond).
Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents | Microsoft Open Source Blog
Discover how the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit brings policy, identity, and reliability to autonomous AI agent systems.
Reframing “Open Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source
How Open Source communities can adapt to AI-generated contributions without overwhelming Open Source maintainers
From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative...
AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with...
Open Source AI Policy Landscape — RedMonk Analysis
How foundations and projects are responding to AI-generated contributions. This analysis surveys 88 major organizations.
As promised, we’ve created a policy document outlining our thoughts on AI and agentic coding (AI for software development). We’re releasing a vote later this week for Blacksky community members to offer their feedback. We look forward to hearing from you all.
Blacksky Algorithms' Policy Towards Agentic Coding
blackskyweb.xyz"AI makes it cheaper to contribute to Open Source, but it's not making life easier for maintainers. More contributions are flowing in, but the burden of evaluating them still falls on the same small group of people. That asymmetric pressure risks breaking maintainers." also relevant to slop science
Why does every platform rebuild the same safety tools from scratch, behind closed doors? Our Head of Product @julietshen.bsky.social joined the Won't Fix pod to talk open-source T&S infrastructure, AI vs. human judgment & safety for the decentralized web: youtube.com/watch?v=RxFV7VwxkLs
Won't Fix Episode 9: With Juliet Shen, Cofounder & HOP at ROOST
www.youtube.comPeer review is facing a death spiral, and AI production tools are speeding it up. AI-assisted reviewing is necessary and should be open. We built OpenAIReview: open AI reviewing for everyone, for the cost of a coffee. openaireview.github.io/blog.html 🧵
AI-assisted Reviewing is Necessary and Should be Open
openaireview.github.io
