Agent psychosis: are we going insane? (News)

What up, nerds? Shabay. I'm Jared, and this is change log news for the week of Monday, 01/19/2026. After nearly ten years, the jQuery team has released a new major version, four point o, of that library so good, it still runs on about 71% of all websites. Many of the breaking changes are removing features, more proof of its transcendence. I'm calling it jQuery. It's the goat. Okay. Let's get into this week's news. Agent psychosis. Are we going insane? Here's Armin Ronacher. Quote, many of us got hit by the agent coding addiction. It feels good. We barely sleep. We build amazing things. Every once in a while, that interaction involves other humans, and all of a sudden, we get a reality check that maybe we overdid it. The most obvious example of this is the massive degradation of quality of issue reports and pull requests. As a maintainer, many PRs now look like an insult to one's time. But when one pushes back, the other person does not see what they did wrong. They thought they helped and contributed and got agitated when you close it down. But it's way worse than that. I see people develop parasocial relationships with their AIs, get heavily addicted to it, and create communities where people reinforce highly unhealthy behavior. How did we get here and what does it do to us? End quote. We are all trying to grapple with what is perhaps the most dramatic change the software world has ever undergone. In this post, Armin grapples with it right out there in public. I appreciate him for doing that. He's been a thought leader for many years, and it's comforting to know that even folks like him are struggling to see this new world clearly. A social file system. Dan Abramov starts this excellent article by praising the portability and effectiveness of the files paradigm. Quote, apps and formats are many to many. File formats let different apps work together without knowing about each other, end quote. Then Dan goes on to describe how the files paradigm could apply to social apps like Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, GitHub, and TikTok. But this is no hypothetical. It's literally how the at protocol works, which Dan calls a social file system. Quote, I previously written about the at protocol in OpenSocial looking at its model from a web centric perspective. But I think that looking at it from the file system perspective is just as intriguing, so I invite you to take a tour of how it works. A personal file system starts with a file. What does a social file system start with? Repobar puts GitHub at a glance from your menu bar. Repobar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening the browser. Pin the repos you care about and get a clear, glanceable dashboard of CI, releases, traffic, and activity right from the macOS menu bar. Repo bar works with GitHub enterprise, but it doesn't work with Linux …