Kanai — January 28, 2026

Matvey, I am tired, boss. How hard is it going to get? 🫩 When it’s my time to be an adult, there’s AI, there are layoffs, junior roles are gone. There was a time when I used to open open-source codebases and feel excited to explore, find good issues, and try to solve them. Now there are thousands of AI-generated PRs just for the sake of getting merged. And oh God if you put up a bounty, it’s doomsday. As soon as an easy issue appears, a PR automatically comes from I don’t know where. Easy issues are basically non-existent now; everything feels like it’s at at senior level. Even though I can ask AI and understand the answer, I don’t know if I would have been able to arrive at that answer on my own at my level. I don’t know if I’m learning or just prompting. Things are very weird right now. How do you see the world right now, I really need some perspectives from a senior's point of view, I feel hopeless.

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Matvey Kukuy (archestra team) — January 29, 2026

Hi Kanai! I believe that the only approach we all should take is to adopt AI, learn, and try our best to do better 🙂 When I started coding, it was almost impossible to get my patch merged into the upstream of a popular open source project; it took me weeks to work on the simplest issues, build relationships with contributors, and get something merged. Today, with those AI PR's slamming the GH repo, we value quality and human involvement the most. I assume that's the main objective for other OSS projects as well.

Kanai — January 30, 2026

Thanks Matvey, I do realise there's no way out, this is what it is as it is. Gotta embrace it.