Episode #1
Welcome to the Madhouse
<p>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.</p> <h3 >Links & mentions</h3> 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://gi...
