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In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together | Open Source Pledge

Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time

An overview of what’s changed in engineering during the last six months, how various tech companies are changing how they work, and why slowing down could be a sensible strategy

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab

Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier? - Slashdot

The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..." [While optimists expect] huge corporate p...

The bottleneck shifts to distribution

Here comes everybody

The bottleneck shifts to distribution

Here comes everybody

ᖴά𝐂τσ on Twitter / X

Unpopular opinion: Opus 4.7 isn't the problem. The problem is a $200/mo "Max" plan that burns out in 15 minutes of real coding. Anthropic shipped a model people want to use and a pricing tier that punishes them for using it. That's not a rate limit. That's a strategy. pic.twitter.com/DVbzvdUHdq— ᖴά𝐂τσ (@cryptofacto) April 17, 2026

Minimum Queue Publishing - Wesley's notes

A strategy for writing more often without losing momentum

Alex Cheema on Twitter / X

It’s kind of crazy but the shitstorm of supply chain issues has created a new best-in-class local AI deployment: M5 Max MacBook clusters.- The memory unit economics are great - each MacBook has 128GB @ 614GB/s for $5k- M5 Max added tensor cores (Apple Neural Accelerators) with… https://t.co/f8STQ0tLZs pic.twitter.com/FLm3oOnyEl— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) May 14, 2026

"Greedflation" and the Profits Equation

The assumption behind the "greedflation" thesis is that companies are choosing to squeeze volumes because they care more about unit margins than total profits. There are other possibilities.