this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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This is a person who requested contributors who is suffering under an onslaught of AI generated bug reports and people who know this project is in maintenance mode adding to that by making requests for QOL updates but who won't actually contribute to the project in any way.
Using AI because you're overwhelmed sucks but I don't have the ability to step up and help. If you do, then by all means.
Yes, people and companies should step up.
No, the answer isn't replacing the test suite with nonfunctional slop and running it as root.
It's all so amateurish and bizzare that my first thought was that someone stole the maintainer's account. I guess nobody's immune to the siren call of the slot machine.
It's unjustifiable bullshit.
It feels like someone being overwhelmed/exhausted to the point of saying "fuck it, I don't care anymore" and afterwards rationalising the use of LLMs as the only way they can keep up, while simultaneously falling for it's addiction. It does demonstrate why relying on one-man projects without chipping in is risky. Unfortunately the companies that rely on it are probably also captured by the bubble so they won't think so.
In the blog he posted afterwards he says he has 40 years of experience, so he is also grandpa old.