Sunsetting Jazzband in the Slopocalypse

Pull Requests were invented for open source to manage the contributions of outsiders - a gate to accept or decline contributions of eager supporters or devs.

Actual teams should be doing trunk-based development, with one-piece flow so PRs are only really a trigger for some automation or for teams that are too large.

GitHub’s kill switch whilst pushing Copilot everywhere is an interesting choice. I’m not sure what the answer is, other than devs or wannabe devs have respect for the rules of engagement; contributing or code of conduct docs. But I wonder how many are fake accounts from state sponsored actors to try and push backdoors by overloading on the noise vs signal. Almost psychological warfare by overwhelm.

Engineering might be dead, at least for the open source community, yet I still find AI useful for small and simple changes I cannot remember how to do. It has value but not at this extreme.

I fear it’ll get worse.

GitHub’s slopocalypse- the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.

Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards, where curl had to shut down its bug bounty because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely - an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.

Captured: 2026-03-15

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