VanToll is reading out a post by the maintainer of a long list of widely used open source JavaScript utilities, and it gives the episode its title. VanToll adds that pull-request review has shrunk to a smoke test, and he expects bigger projects to follow.
But as I was listening to it while editing it and I said 10 gigabytes, I felt, oh, I got to say something. So, yeah.
And there you go. When the most accurate podcast in tech, let's get on with our news. Let's do it. All right, TJ, tell us why open source was fun while it lasted.
…I have disabled external pull requests on all of my repos. Open Source, as we know, as we have known it, was fun while it lasted. I will still maintain projects and handle issues. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a dig at AI. The quality of open source contributions had been declining long before AI. AI just accelerated it while also making PR spam dramatically worse. I use AI extensively myself. It simply makes no sense for me to spend time reviewing and going back and forth on a low-quality PR when I can generate, verify, and ship the fix faster myself. And that this is ultimately about optimizing my time.
Okay. Yeah, no, I get it for sure.
Yeah.
I mean, there's not a lot more to say. He kind of summed it up. If the reason for open source and what you're trying to do is put out more features that the open source community is using, then it is a lot more efficient to just have an agent go through it with you and build it the way that you…