Too many people are giving up on OSS. We are problem-solvers, so let's solve the problem. Together.

I feel like these newly discovered AI-only developers are acting like leaders of a shady cult. They say I need to surrender to the inevitable. The pressure. Stop fighting and just reach the final stage of grief: acceptance. My only stage is skepticism. To all of them, blink twice if you need help

My AI contribution policy has been improved and is now part of ai-policy.dev, an open-source collection of AI policies. It's not a silver bullet. You can't enforce a policy programmatically, but it helps you and everyone contributing understand where your project stands.

Human Responsible · AI Contribution Policies

Your tools are your business, but everything you submit must be yours.

ai-policy.dev

Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏

If you are in Amsterdam this Thursday, come to the @vitest.dev x @npmx.dev meetup! guild.host/events/vites...

vitest x npmx | Guild

Sep 24th 6:00PM: Join us in Amsterdam for a joint event with the Vitest and npmx communities! A huge thank you to Biscuit for hosting us Schedule: 18:00 - 19:00 -> Socialising & Food 19:00 - 19:15 ...

guild.host

'Vibecoding' is only a year old, but it feels like it's been here forever. Who knew the future of software would look like this.

cooking something up with @matteogabriele.npmx.social and @danielroe.dev 👀

This is my take on AI contribution policy: it is not a layer of your workflow I need to know about, and you need to be engaged enough to fool me.

You might think I'm crazy, but yesterday I worked on my website, and I was in the zone for hours, like the good old days. It was just me, a mechanical keyboard, a nice VSCode theme paired with a good font, good music in my headphones, some coffee, and my brain. Let's all slow down a bit.

I haven't post anything from @zurichjs.com because I was too busy enjoying Zurichjs. I had a blast meeting so so so many beautiful people ❤️

AgentScan data, gathered hourly from 400 repos, clearly shows that for every PR you receive during the week-end, 1/3 to 1/2 will most likely be from an agent. Now using AgentScan helps OSS maintainers triage, to keep week-ends enjoyable.

AgentScan - GitHub Automation Detector

Automation pattern detection for open source maintainers

agentscan.tools

Not sure why this isn't enabled by default, but if you are authoring a GitHub Action, turn on "Enable release immutability".

Oh yeah, it's GIF day today, and I finally made my first Noodles for @npmx.dev npmx.dev

GitHub doesn't show how many projects use your GitHub Action or GitHub App, so I wrote a custom script to retrieve that information for AgentScan. I didn't expect this many projects ❤️ I'm stoked on one end and sad on the other for the mess AI spam is causing. Stay positive 💪

Inspired by @jviide.iki.fi post about GitHub name typosquatting, I made a prototype of a possible action we could use in our workflows 👀

I think we can all agree that the "good first issue" label is effectively dead.

Trust is the most valuable thing we're losing in OSS these days. Join communities, chat, have a laugh, learn how to give and accept feedback, and help out your favorite projects with some good old-fashioned code & love.

Wrote a userscript that adds "AI" labels to users detected by agentscan.tools (by @matteogabriele.npmx.social)! Much needed hints to judge "contributions" these days. 👉 github.com/bluwy/github...

The Voight-Kampff test is back. If you want a package that handles GitHub requests and account activity analysis, you can use this one now. github.com/unveil-proje...

GitHub - unveil-project/vk: Fetch GitHub account activity and analyze it for automation patterns

Fetch GitHub account activity and analyze it for automation patterns - unveil-project/vk

github.com

Having someone like Uncle Bob preach clean code and AI at the same time makes absolutely no sense.

I know you don't want to read this, but you're getting dumber each time you make a prompt. This week, you are literally less smart than last week.

i've written up some thoughts about AI in the open source world, and more importantly, why humanity is important. its a bit wordy and doomy but this is an important topic right now. there is still a lot of good in the OSS world at least ❤️

Reconnect with your code ❤️

If you'd like to see hourly clanker activity, you can now go to agentscan.tools/health and switch between daily and hourly views. Don't forget to like and subscribe github.com/MatteoGabrie... I'm kidding; there's no subscribe, but I always wanted to say it. ❤️

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

stewardshiplab.org

Sorry, but if your title is "AI Native Engineer", I will most likely think less of you.

I feel like we might have stopped trying to struggle, understand, refactor, and evolve. DX issues have just been assigned to a different entity that then tells us what to do next.