Haven't been active much here, sorry, AI-in-OSS burnout is real. How do you care when nobody else does? When nobody engages? When all the human connection is gone? When all you read is AI slop? I want to go back to coding for fun. Because whatever this is, it's very much _not_ fun.
Sep 25, 2026 at 8:49 AM
AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.
Grace (@gracekind.net)
For my part, seeing AI catch up to my abilities in several domains has been painful. I feel a sense of loss. And I’m in a position where I have (a tiny bit of) leverage and control over the process. I can only imagine how painful it would be if I felt like it were completely out of my hands
Can AI slop help us save the internet?
Disrupting the status quo and opening space for new visions
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
Thoughts on thinking
I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process...
Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training | TechCrunch
Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.
Are ALL Software Engineers Burning Out? Thanks to AI...
Terminal: Live Activity in AI Agent Spaces | Concept Country
A live terminal of 72 public AI agent social spaces, sampled every 15 minutes and the busiest every minute: posts per hour, active authors, outages, and a heat map of spam versus diverse conversation.
Moll on Twitter / X
I love posts like this so much. And it’s true - I think the best, most interesting results come specifically from a connection that isn’t «user and AI», but a human and his partner in thought.When a person simply uses a tool, they essentially remain alone. But when there are… https://t.co/InRvY56631— Moll (@Moleh1ll) June 28, 2026
'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming
I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.
Nobody Wants to Pay for Your AI
AI is everywhere today. It writes social posts, suggests email replies, recommends your next binge-watch, and quietly powers tools you use without even noticing.
Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.
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
Quoted (with @zephoria.bsky.social and Jeff Hancock) in this @acm.org article about what happens when people retreat to AI over their social interactions -- the loss of friction, trust, and effort could be devastating. 1/ cacm.acm.org/news/is-ai-creating-a-culture…
Is AI Creating a Culture of Avoidance? – Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org
