{"id":106307,"date":"2026-02-22T16:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106307"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:26:05","slug":"xkcd-dependency-updated-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106307","title":{"rendered":"XKCD Dependency: Updated for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/02\/22\/what-about-the-droid-attack-on-the-repos\/\">impact of AI on the the maintainers of open-source work <\/a>the entire tech world is built on and no one wants to pay for (and many other artifacts of human effort being reprocessed and resold as unreliable derivative simulacra), I thought the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2347\/\">xkcd2473: dependency<\/a>, which is so frequently relevant it&#8217;s basically a meme template, could use an update. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dependencyAI.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dependencyAI.png 385w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dependencyAI-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vehicle lifted from <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1990\/\">xkcd1990: Driving Cars<\/a> to match style, and is incidentally also about irresponsible deployment of technologies in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about the impact of AI on the the maintainers of open-source work the entire tech world is built on and no one wants to pay for (and many other artifacts of human effort being reprocessed and resold as unreliable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}