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Aleks Volochnev

2 articles · writing here since December 2025

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AI is burning out the people who keep open source alive

Over the past few months, one refrain has been heard consistently in open source communities: “AI slop.” It shows up in LinkedIn discussions from CEOs who rarely complain publicly. It shows up in Re

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It's harder to read code than to write it (especially when AI writes it)
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." Brian Kernighan (co-creator of Unix and co-author of The C Programmi....
12.04.25

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AI is burning out the people who keep open source alive

More articles by Aleks Volochnev

It's harder to read code than to write it (especially when AI writes it)