Agent psychosis: are we going insane? (News)

What It Covers

The software industry grapples with AI coding agents' impact on developer behavior and code quality. jQuery releases version 4.0 after ten years. Dan Abramov explores applying file system paradigms to social networks through AT Protocol's architecture.

Key Questions Answered

• •AI Agent Code Quality: Maintainers report degraded quality in pull requests and issue reports as developers use AI agents to generate contributions without understanding context, creating friction when maintainers reject low-quality submissions that contributors believe are helpful, fundamentally changing open source collaboration dynamics and expectations around contribution standards.
• •Dependency Management Crisis: The web platform lacks native dependency management, forcing developers to rely on third party tooling and making code reuse a series of unnecessary tradeoffs. This fundamental gap requires radical solutions beyond incremental improvements, as dependency-free code has incorrectly become a badge of honor in web development ecosystems.
• •Social File Systems: AT Protocol implements a social file system model where apps and formats maintain many-to-many relationships, allowing different applications to work together without direct knowledge of each other. This portability paradigm from traditional file systems applies to social platforms like Instagram, Reddit, and GitHub through standardized data formats.
• •Postgres Production Patterns: Critical database patterns include UUID primary keys, created_at and updated_at timestamps on all tables, restrict constraints for updates and deletes, schema organization, enum tables, singular table naming, mechanical join table naming, soft deletes, status representation as logs, and system ID markers for special rows.