@mirandaheath.website
Director @ stewardshiplab.org researching burnout in Open Source communities
Psychology and philosophy PhD researcher @ Edinburgh Uni studying collective moral behaviour
Loves spoonbills 🥄
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@mirandaheath.websiteIntriguing 👀👻
@mirandaheath.websiteWait til you see this little guy...
@mirandaheath.websiteOh nice one!
@mirandaheath.websiteI'm so glad it was helpful!
Research on agency and responsibility goes all the way back to 1979, here's a summary of the paper that started it, if you're curious! werkwelzijnenmotivatie.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
@mirandaheath.websiteExcited to be in Prague for my first #OSSummit! I'll be talking on Burnout in Open Source 11.55 on Friday, come say hi if you're around! 👋 Lots of exciting things in the schedule... bit.ly/3NXx5Zp
@mirandaheath.websiteI've seen maintainers talk about wanting to disincentivise people from making slop AI PRs/issues in the first place, but it's hard to know how to achieve that in practice. I'd love to know more about what motivates people to do it
@mirandaheath.websiteRight! It sounds like there is vastly more noise in the form of slop, but also genuine signals amongst the slop that are hard to ignore once you know they exist, but that are also effortful to get into a state where they're fit to merge. Greater volume of harder work!
@mirandaheath.websiteI keep hearing this, sounds like there's a tremendous signal-noise problem. I also imagine the fact that all this extra work isn't even coming from another person who has put some effort into it must add insult to injury!
@mirandaheath.websiteJust drop me a DM or email at [email protected] if you'd like to share your thoughts
@mirandaheath.websiteI'm researching the impact of AI on OSS maintainer burnout at the moment, I'd love to get your views if you're happy to share. The pain of losing connection with others comes up quite a lot—it sounds like folks are almost in mourning for how things used to be, you are not alone!
@mirandaheath.websiteSo happy to be involved! What a rich picture of what it's like to be a dev in 2026—the good, the bad and the ugly!
@mirandaheath.websiteGorgeous salamander oh my goodness!!!
@mirandaheath.websiteSuper excited to be a speaker at @viteconf.org this year, where I'll be talking about burnout in OSS and why we should care about it 🔥 viteconf.org/tickets/t/YB...
@mirandaheath.websiteDone!
@mirandaheath.websiteHey Sacha! Thanks for reaching out, I'd love to learn more about your survey, and devographics, too! Wanna hop on a call sometime? We can organise by PM
@mirandaheath.websiteSuch an important and multifaceted topic, thanks for the exploring this, was really nice to chat with you about it! Big recommend for anyone feeling a bit off the more they use AI to code!
@mirandaheath.websiteNew OSS sustainability research lab just dropped! 👀 Come see what we're all about!
@mirandaheath.websiteDelighted to! I'll DM you...
@mirandaheath.websiteOoh great idea! I'd love to chat, Scott! ☀️ I'm also finding people feel pressure to produce more in the age of AI coding, and I'm super interested in the experience of 'AI brain fry' that comes with trying to do to much in parallel, looks like we're looking at some of the same things!
@mirandaheath.websiteThanks for the shout-out ❤️ part 2 on the impact of AI on maintainer burnout underway 👀
