Alex K.

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Posts in 2026

09
SEP

The Loop

06:17 You do not hear the alarm. There is no alarm. For perhaps half a second, the bedroom is brighter than noon. White light floods through the curtains, sharp enough to leave the shape of the window burned into your vision after you close your eyes. Then darkness again. You sit up. Your phone is dead. The clock on the wall is dead. The lights do not work. Outside, car alarms begin screaming one
28
AUG

220,000 open front doors

A tech executive posts a demo on LinkedIn. His "AI agent" reads his email, parses his calendar, and spins up tasks in Asana. Fifty thousand impressions. "The future of productivity." I have built this kind of automation for clients. Every single thing in that demo has been possible with n8n, Make, or Zapier wired to an LLM API since 2023. A cron job, an API call, an LLM wrapper. Calling it a
09
JUN

Vibe slop and the skills nobody cancelled

On May 23, the Wall Street Journal ran an interview that read less like a warning and more like a confession. Two of the people behind Pi, the agent harness at the core of the popular OpenClaw framework, turned around and warned the industry about the thing they helped build. Mario Zechner and Armin Ronacher gave us a name for what is now filling our repositories: vibe slop. It is two older ideas
01
APR

The series of unfortunate events

March 31, 2026, was one of those days when the industry looked less like a machine and more like a pile-up. Anthropic accidentally shipped a release of Claude Code that exposed a large internal codebase through a source map. X had a U.S. outage the same day. OpenAI reported elevated failures for some ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu users joining workspaces through SSO. Anthropic's own status history also shows timeouts affecting Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 from March 31 into April 1. Then, as if the point still needed proving, reporting linked a major supply-chain attack on the widely used Axios npm package to North Korean operators.
Security AI Anthropic ChatGPT NPM