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The PSF is putting a brave face on this but since I do not need to speak for them institutionally: I'm mad because "AI" is effectively stealing from the commons.
This commons was built with the express purpose of being useful to profit-seeking corporations, so just _using_ it isn't stealing, this is an explicit goal of the whole enterprise. But blowing the doors off with carelessly deployed "agentic loops" that are just chewing up public resources to no useful end is antisocial behavior.
@glyph I'm glad you explained further because I read the post and couldn't tell what you were mad about. I was fascinated by the complaint that credit usage had gone up 25% while requests went from millions to billions—25% is dramatically less than 100000%, so either everything was wildly over-provisioned before, or the infrastructure folks have been doing an incredible job, or the CDN in front is absorbing most of the difference. But I guess the subtext I missed was that most of those new requests are from AI scrapers, is that it?
@phildini @jamey to be clear I think that all these things are true: things were previously overprovisioned, the ops team was and is doing an amazing job, and the CDN (fastly) is also taking on an enormous load. we are deeply in trouble despite all those things due to carelessness in how things are being deployed.
to be clear I really doubt it is *scrapers*, my guess is it’s mostly bots stuck in loops where they are re-running CI that downloads packages over and over again
