(As if they're not one already.)
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| Yes, the number of indexed pages on this blog actually went down over the course of the past month. I guess Google kind of lost the plot. Graph as of February 17, 2026. |
Tech engineer and Raspberry Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling experienced problems due to AI swamping his GitHub and AI agents causing disruption in the open source community:
And the popular LINUX distro, LINUX Mint,* had their forums swamped with AI bots back in January, nearly bringing down the entire system:
These are just two that I'm aware of; I'm almost certain there's more out there that I haven't observed yet.
This bubble can't pop quickly enough.
*I found out about LINUX Mint while researching a LINUX OS to install on my mom's old laptop that doesn't support Windows 11 yet is perfectly fine for use.
I was pretty convinced it was a bubble for a while but now I'm not so sure. And even if it is a bubble, don't count on anything changing when it bursts. Historically, the dot-com bubble was nothing more than a blip in the predicted growth of the web. A lot of money may have been lost but the same future arrived, just a little bit later than expected.
ReplyDeleteWhen the behavior begins to intersect with the behavior of malware, I worry, and not just about the annoyances of "you will own nothing and like it" but that some weird mashup of Brave New World and 1984 is happening.
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