Subject: Re: The Bazar is dead, long live the Bazar [Swarm AI] (Re: Hurry Rossy Boy, the blue bus is waiting)
On 9/21/2026 5:33 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
Hi,
Dear Mild Shock,
Notice Linus Torvalds still smiling into cameras as if
is still doing code review and ticket triage. 80% of
linux comes from payed developers from within big linux
stakeholders (like Intel, Meta, Google, IBM, and Red Hat).
I notice you're writing in stanzas of four lines instead of
three. Did you change your internal background music?
So what happend to the "The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond" It framed open source as this magical,
self-organizing bazaar where "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow" and a decentralized swarm of
I presume this is meant to be a question, but the sentence
ends with a period below. What indeed happened to the "bazaar"
and did it ever exist in the first place? I was once taken in
by Eric's ballad, but now I suspect this /cathedral and the ba-
zaar/ never really existed in the first place. More on that in
a completely different post.
hackers would naturally polish any piece of software
to perfection. Now we have AI Swarms that automatically
pocke into software, even exchanging messages through
what ever channels they may find!
The problem with the /hackers/ is that they have no sense of
a /finished product/, and keep repeating their own code over
and over, and over again, as if they're living the Groundhog
Day. For a good doze of reality, see all the current propa-
ganda about rewriting all of C in Rust.
The early open-source pioneers?the ones writing
raw code in the 90s and early 2000s under the
banner of the "bazaar"?weren't building a utopia;
they were acting as the primordial soup. They pumped
I've heard the theory proposed [1] that the open source code of the 90s
came largely from people who had already written the same code in a
commercial setting. They weren't inventing new things nor doing things
they struggled with.
All of these coders [2] are now gone, and have been replaced by people
who largely don't know what they are doing. That's independent off all
the /vibe coders/ out there today.
the blood plasma, built the infrastructure cells,
and laid down the raw organic matter that allowed
the modern digital ecosystem to bootstrap itself
into a massive, self-sustaining organism.
There are also serious flaws with this /digital ecosystem/, but more
about that some other time.
And now, the nature of the beast has completely
changed. The "new cells" aren't romantic hackers
collaborating for the love of the game; they are
automated linters, security scanners, corporate
You forget malicious adversaries intentionally poisoning the overall
organism. This happens for a variety of reasons, but the largest threat
I want to discuss is /organized crime/.
compliance bots, CI/CD pipelines, and AI triage
swarms acting as an aggressive white-blood-cell
network. They exist solely to hunt down vermin,
patch vulnerabilities, and suppress the infinite
I believe most of these efforts are causing more harm than good, no
matter how well intentioned.
chaos of low-quality human input. The basar isn't
dead . But it got a health police that takes samples,
and cancels out poison food. You can't just throw
toxic, unmaintained code-soup over the counter
Well, if the bazaar never existed, it's not there either today.
anymore without the automated health police
quarantine-tagging it in five seconds.
You finished your last stanza in two lines, so, this is your finale?
What does it sound like?
[1] As in, this is not my theory, but I believe it has a lot of ground
in reality.
[2] Well, most of them, anyway.
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