Incident Report

Cold case archive

• #20260923

  AI Agents are Threatening the Survival of Open Source

  Open Source vs. AI Agents
  • [hn]Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?
• #20260922

  Shape-Rotators Officially Deemed Obsolete by AI

  Shape-Rotators vs. AI
  • [reddit]It's Over For Shape-Rotators
• #20260921

  AI Agents Replacing Dev Tools and Pull Requests

  Pull requests, Playwright, and chip design tools vs. AI agents
  • [hn]Agents are replacing pull requests, Playwright, and chip design tools
• #20260920

  AI coding tools may obsolesce senior engineers and indie developers

  senior engineers and indie developers vs. AI-powered coding tools
  • [reddit]Are we entering a golden age for indie developers and senior engineers?
• #20260919

  AI chatbots kill older chatbots, customers rejoice?

  Customer service chatbots vs. More capable LLM-based chatbots
• #20260918

  AI-powered bash/powershell script replaces curl

  curl vs. AI
  • [hn]Show HN: File that is both valid bash and PowerShell, and replaces curl – bash
• #20260917

  AI-related shutdowns impact Autistici/Inventati services

  Autistici/Inventati (A/I) services vs. AI
  • [lobsters]A/I Shuts Down
• #20260916

  IDEs are dead, long live the IDE: AI promises a new era of coding

  IDEs vs. AI code assistants
  • [hn]IDEs are dead, long live the IDE
• #20260915

  AI Kills Security Through Obscurity

  Security through obscurity vs. AI
  • [hn]Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
• #20260914

  AI kills security through obscurity

  Security through obscurity vs. AI
  • [hn]Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
  • [hn]Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
• #20260913

  AI Poised to Replace Project Managers

  project manager vs. AI
  • [hn]Show HN: Liniora – Ever thought about replacing your project manager?
• #20260912

  AI's impact on front-end engineering roles discussed

  Front-end engineer role vs. AI
  • [hn]Ask HN: Has AI killed the front end engineer role?
• #20260911

  AI converts stories to graphic novels with zero errors, impacting creators

  Creative writing/storytelling workflows vs. AI story-to-graphic-novel conversion
  • [reddit]AI just converted my story into a graphic novel with virtually zero errors
• #20260910

  DHH's Omarchy considers replacing Arch/AUR with Nix

  Arch/AUR vs. Nix
  • [hn]DHH's Omarchy Considering Replacing Arch/AUR with Nix
• #20260909

  AI signals the end of software as we know it

  Software development workflow vs. AI
  • [hn]Show HN: AI means the end of software as we know it
• #20260908

  Switzerland Ditches Microsoft for Open Source on 3,000 Computers

  Microsoft software on 3,000 computers vs. Open source alternatives / AI integration
  • [hn]Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
• #20260907

  AI agents are already replacing research interns, OpenAI claims

  Research intern jobs vs. OpenAI's automated AI agents
  • [reddit]OpenAI: AI agents now perform 3.1 researcher-workdays for every human researcher-workday, says it has reached “automated research intern” level, and expects “automated AI researcher” by March 2028
  • [reddit]OpenAI say they already have an automated AI research intern and expect a full AI researcher by March 2028 which could lead to RSI. Is this legit or just IPO hype before the bubble pops? https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai/
  • [reddit]It looks like my job is about a year away from being replaced
  • [reddit]Electrical engineering might be the next profession to get absolutely wrecked by AI
  • [reddit]AGI already exists internally
• #20260906

  AI tanks music courses, declares them dead

  Music courses vs. AI
  • [hn]Music courses are dead (tanks AI) [video]
• #20260905

  AI R&D Itself Is Being Automated

  AI R&D vs. Automated AI R&D
  • [reddit]"Anthropic continues to inch closer and closer to automating AI R&D. If this trend continues, we can expect fully automated AI R&D within 2 years."
• #20260904

  GPT-6 Astra is revolutionizing Electrical Engineering

  Electrical Engineering tasks vs. GPT-6 Astra
  • [reddit]GPT-6 Astra is actually nuts for electrical engineering
• #20260903

  AI-generated content kills blog traffic

  Blog Traffic vs. AI-generated content
  • [hn]AI Killed My Blog Traffic
  • [reddit]US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case (Training is NOT infringement) [It's over for humans that create content]
• #20260902

  AI is making back-office work extinct

  back-office work vs. AI
  • [hn]AI is making back-office work extinct
• #20260901

  Local AI is Dead: LLMs Have Won

  Local AI vs. Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • [hn]Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral
• #20260830

  AI Revives a Dead Sleep Company

  Sleep Company vs. AI
  • [hn]AI Revives a Dead Sleep Company
  • [lobsters]AI Revives a Dead Sleep Company
• #20260829

  AI Researchers Outperform Humans in Alignment Tasks

  human AI alignment researchers vs. Anthropic's automated alignment researchers
  • [reddit]Anthropic's automated alignment researchers perform significantly better than human researchers
• #20260828

  AI's rise may challenge the future of university mathematics professors

  University mathematics professor roles vs. AI capabilities
  • [reddit]Universities going forward?
• #20260827

  AI Drone Kills Civilians in Ukraine

  civilians in Ukraine vs. AI-guided drone
  • [hn]Nvidia Jetson Orin-guided Russian AI drone killed three civilians in Ukraine
  • [hn]A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided by A.I
• #20260826

  Rust Enum Replacement Boosts Interpreter Speed by 17%

  Rust Enum vs. 64-bit Word
  • [lobsters]Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
  • [hn]Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
• #20260825

  AI takes aim: Autonomous drones replace human pilots in combat

  Human drone piloting vs. AI
  • [hn]A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided by A.I
• #20260823

  AI coding agents are dead, what's next?

  coding agents vs. AI
  • [hn]Continue coding agent is dead. Alternatives?
• #20260822

  Claude Code skill replaces entire Grafana stack

  Grafana stack vs. Claude Code skill
  • [hn]We replaced our Grafana stack with a single Claude Code skill
• #20260821

  223-node agent graph replaced by single open-source LLM

  223-node agent graph vs. single open-source LLM
  • [hn]We replaced our 223-node agent graph with a single open-source LLM
• #20260820

  Google Drive replaces Git tags, sparking developer backlash

  Git tags for certain source code vs. Google Drive
  • [hn]Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive
• #20260819

  Amazon AI Scans Rare Books Then Destroys Them, Report Says

  Rare books (Amazon's process) vs. AI-powered book scanning
  • [reddit]Aaron Parnas on Instagram
• #20260818

  AI is writing dead code, making old tools obsolete

  dead code detection vs. AI
  • [hn]AI writes dead code – the Go team's deadcode tool finds it in one command
• #20260817

  Tokens Replacing Payroll: The New AI-Driven Workforce Economy

  Payroll vs. AI (Tokens)
  • [hn]Let's Be Honest: Tokens Are Replacing Payrolls
• #20260816

  Baltimore Sun Replaces Cartoonist with AI

  Cartoonist at The Baltimore Sun vs. AI
  • [bluesky]The Baltimore Sun got bought out by the local Fox News affiliate and replaced its cartoonist with AI
• #20260815

  YouTube AI demonetizes anime channels, impacting creators' careers

  YouTube channel demonetization vs. YouTube's AI bots
  • [bluesky]Very concerning that two YouTubers I watch got their channels completely demonetized because YouTube's AI bots decided their content is misleading family content because they cover anime. Seeing act
• #20260814

  Saber CEO admits writer replaced by ChatGPT, defends decision

  Saber Interactive writer vs. ChatGPT
  • [bluesky]Saber Interactive CEO responds to claims that a writer was replaced with AI UPDATE: Matt Karch says former lead writer was "replaced by someone more talented and terminated for a variety of reasons a
  • [bluesky]In less than a week we had - One of the most famous Terraria mod blew up as the lead dev got outed as a groomer (again.) - Saber's CEO replaced a writer by fucking chatgpt and threw a tantrum when i
  • [bluesky]How NOT to respond in a professional manner as a CEO. "I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI." "she was replaced by someone more talented" Jesus effing christ. thi
• #20260813

  Saber Interactive Accused of Replacing Writer with ChatGPT

  Saber Interactive writer vs. ChatGPT
  • [bluesky]Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch has responded to accusations that the studio replaced a writer with ChatGPT, and framed the use of AI as "a plus for consumers." Karch suggested the writer "was re
  • [bluesky]A former Saber lead writer claims she was replaced by ChatGPT during development on its upcoming game Rideshare 'Stimulator'. Saber denies replacing any writers but says AI was used in the game's dev
  • [bluesky]Saber Interactive has denied it replaced a writer with ChatGPT, but admitted its new taxi game Rideshare Stimulator uses AI "by necessity." https://bit.ly/4gcCSun
  • [hn]Saber Interactive Denies Replacing Lead Writer with ChatGPT, CEO Responds
  • [bluesky]Saber denies it replaced writers with genAI while *not* denying the use of genAI elsewhere in the game https://kotaku.com/saber-interactive-rideshare-stimulator-gen-ai-2000723770
• #20260812

  Saber Interactive replaces writers and voice actors with AI for game development

  Video game writers and voice actors vs. ChatGPT and AI-generated text/voices
  • [bluesky]I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direc
  • [bluesky]Saber PR responded to my post by saying that the story was written by people and no writers were replaced, buuuuut also that the game uses AI generated text and voices. C’mon man lmao
  • [bluesky]Hey! Did/Do you work at Saber Interactive? Were you replaced by AI (or do you suspect you were?) Wanna talk about it? Please get in touch. You can do so via discord @adashtra or Signal @adashtra.87 or
  • [bluesky]QTs were disabled, but a writer who was replaced wth AI mid-development just posted the politest description of exactly what happened to coincide with the release of the game, and i urge anyone who ha
  • [bluesky]I know it isn’t a PlayStation game but them marketing this game on their official social media accounts without disclosing that real humans were fired and replaced by AI during development is yet anot
• #20260811

  AI code generation threatens pipeline for senior programmers

  junior programmers vs. AI code generation tools
  • [bluesky]I've been hearing people lament that, if AI replaces junior programmers, then how will we get new senior programmers when nobody's in the pipeline? 1/7
• #20260810

  Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product

  Software as a Product vs. AI
  • [hn]Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product
  • [bluesky]I’m so mad about the old google summary and the default calculator being replaced by ai. It used to just show the Wikipedia snippet and now it’s like “WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THIS ANSWER FROM AN UNVERIF
  • [bluesky]You want to read Books, Articles, Papers, News And videos at the same place? I built Knowl—a clean web workspace that replaces doomscrolling with RSS feeds and content that matters with AI tutoring an
• #20260809

  Anthology and imprint shut down due to flood of AI-generated stories

  Anthologies and imprints publishing speculative fiction vs. AI-generated stories
  • [bluesky]Another AI casualty. 😕 An entire anthology was cancelled and *an entire imprint* was shut down because they were flooded with AI stories and couldn't fully verify which ones were written by humans. �
• #20260808

  AI kills 'learn to code' dream jobs, offers few alternatives

  Learn to code jobs vs. AI
  • [bluesky]"Learn to code" has been killed by AI, "you can pump gas" and "get a job at Walmart" also aren't viable, but there are some niche sectors with job growth, so I guess the new smug thing to say to someo
  • [bluesky]"I'm not worried about you being replaced by AI that can do your job. I'm worried about you being replaced by AI that can't do your job." That is absolutely what is happening in so many places.
  • [bluesky]I believe we will see job losses from now on. AI will put any person who is an office or phone worker out of a job. CEOs and Engineers of AI have all stated that by 2030 (that's 4 years) all of those
• #20260807

  Cities replace Flock with Axon, signaling AI's impact on surveillance tech

  Axon vs. Flock
  • [hn]A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon
• #20260806

  AI replaces medical professionals, raising privacy concerns

  Jobs in the medical field vs. Generative AI
  • [bluesky]I'm pretty bitter about this. I've never used genAi. I was just let go & have been replaced by Ai in the medical field. I was damn good at my job. Escalations went thru me & could usually get a quick
  • [bluesky]It’s also shows an increíble lack of awareness. I don’t need AI for my work, it couldnt do my job. I actively avoid it outside of work. If AI is making his job so much easier, his job is at best d
• #20260805

  AI-generated images of fallen US service members spark outrage

  US Service Members (graphic representation) vs. AI image generation
  • [bluesky]US Service Members - The graphic of US service members is false. - *All* the names are wrong, cobbled from different places, with AI images. (See image) - 18 US service members have been killed in the
  • [bluesky]False Graphic. US / Iran War. - This graphic of US service members killed in Iran is false. - All the names are wrong, with AI images. - I had to do work to debunk it (quoted post). - And few will see
• #20260804

  AI is killing Graphic Design jobs, forcing career changes

  Graphic Design jobs vs. AI
  • [bluesky]I need ideas for a new career. At 52. It seems AI has killed my beloved Graphic Design job. 🥺