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GitHub is Telling Jokes with Model LTS of 1 Year
May 3, 2026
1 Year = “Long Term Support” I was perusing the GitHub Copilot documentation tonight, a kind of thing I’ll routinely do, something I call a ‘documentation soak’ where I go through practically everything in the documentation for a particular product, framework, etc. to … Read more →
A Silver Lining in Recent LLM Usage Cost Increases
April 28, 2026
Cost of “Slop” Goes Up There’s been a lot of issues with the amount of “AI slop” being thrown at the wall. This has been exhausting the maintainers of many beloved open source projects, and a major source of frustration for development teams everywhere who care about … Read more →
A Follow-Up to "AI Gamification of GitHub Stars?"
April 20, 2026
Follow Up Time! In a follow up to my previous post, where I shared observations and musings about what appears to be extreme abuse of star ratings, I wanted to share a few “new to me” tidbits. These have organically surfaced recently through my casual catching up on the industry routine. … Read more →
Are Star Ratings on GitHub Under AI Siege?
March 19, 2026
AI Gamification of GitHub Stars? Is anyone noticing this pattern with stereotypical AI-driven GitHub repos? Some projects have only been around for mere weeks to a year. They have hundreds, if not thousands of commits, and a very high star count that seems suspect. Such repositories have a pattern … Read more →
The Omnichannel AI Rug Pull
February 2, 2026
Tactics Without Strategy… Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu After keeping a watchful eye on the “AI” (LLM) ecosystem over the past year and doing my own research, my observations have been weighing on me enough to finally write something about my … Read more →
Are These Infrastructure as Code Symptoms Costing Your Business?
August 15, 2025
The Symptoms Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been a game-changer in the world of “DevOps.” The practice has matured and gain enough acceptance that many organizations now consider their IaC code to be a part of their DR (Disaster Recovery) strategy and a key component of their change … Read more →