Agent psychosis: are we going insane? (News)

特工妄想症:我们是否正在发疯?(新闻)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

2026-01-20

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Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening a browser, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, and Lea Verou says web dependencies are broken and we need to fix them.
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  • What up nerds?

  • I'm Jared and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, January 19th, 2026.

  • After nearly 10 years, the jQuery team has released a new major version 4.0.

  • Of that library so good, it still runs on about 71% of all websites.

  • Many of the breaking changes are removing features more proof of its transcendence.

  • I'm calling it jQuery, it's the goat.

  • Okay, let's get into this week's news.

  • Agent psychosis.

  • Are we going insane?

  • Here's Armin Ronicher.

  • Quote, many of us got hit by the agent coding addiction.

  • It feels good, we barely sleep, we build amazing things.

  • Every once in a while,

  • that interaction involves other humans and all of a sudden we get a reality check that maybe we overdid it.

  • The most obvious example of this is the massive degradation of quality of issue reports and pull requests.

  • As a maintainer, many PRs now look like an insult to one's time,

  • but when one pushes back, the other person does not see what they did wrong.

  • They thought they helped and contributed and got agitated when you close it down.

  • But it's way worse than that.

  • I see people develop parasocial relationships with their AIs,