Welcome to the Madhouse

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400

Matt and Robert launch Software Madhouse with the AI open-source firehose: drive-by slop PRs flooding projects like Helm, extra maintainer load, and how communities are fighting back with policies, GitHub caps, kernel Assisted-by: trailers, and tools like Vouch and Good Egg.

Links & mentions

Kubernetes: Open source maintainership in the age of AI — https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2026/06/26/open-source-maintainership-in-the-age-of-ai/
GitHub: Limit open PRs for users without write access — https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-17-limit-open-pull-requests-for-users-without-write-access/
Linux kernel coding assistants — https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html
Vouch (Mitchell Hashimoto / Ghostty) — https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
Good Egg — https://github.com/2ndSetAI/good-egg

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGkEQvsIGo