A recent tragedy is the shuttering of the airplanes.live API. They've recently been bombarded with crazy amounts of traffic from people vibe coding apps, and violating the TOS and using it commercially.
On top of that, after shuttering it to people not feeding data to the system, they were bombarded by LLM written emails, all nearly identical, and all formulaic. It's really sad - but they chuck them right in the bin.
That is a travesty. I can't help but hope we can find ways to protect projects like this in a way that doesn't require government or corporate regulation. Others have mentioned a Web of Trust / Social Credit - if we could wire that into the the http protocol ...
The current hiring process is a good example of the AI Arms Race that Cory Doctorow was writing about recently. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/10/deep-state-wopr/#abelard-... - It's also a good example of a multi-polar trap. The rules of the current game assure everyone looses.
AI use in the creation of this article is inconsequential. There is obvious joy and high fidelity information here. Perhaps some vibe coding made the animations easier to develop, and made it possible to produce this in reasonable time. Who cares. Love of craft is evident. What more proof do you need that this is worthy of human attention?
