Alex

If your just need to wiggle gpio pins then you can get a Pico. The Pi is way too overpowered for most embedded things.

I think the panels on my home are around 20% efficient so this sounds promising.

The project I’m working on has had regular discussion about whether we should move from our email list and patch workflow to a more PR focused approach for a number of years now. Something that works for us greybeards is anathema to younger engineers who grew up on GitHub.

I suspect the current slopocolypse is going to delay that move for a few more years until this wave of disruption has settled down.

Slop projects and slop submissions existed before the current crop of AI but it’s certainly lowered the barrier. That said I suspect there are places AI can help. Simple patches, human guided refactores, test cases. We’ll have data points from the projects that turned on the slop cannons and started auto accepting PRs soon enough.

Did anyone think you could pin it on one person/institution/event?

All systems risk catastrophic collapse when overwhelmed and resilience comes from multiple overlapping measures to try and avoid that.

Climate change is here and will increases the chances of these wildfires burning it off control and humanity as a species is going to have to adapt.