It has been one week since sloppish launched. Here is what happened.

This Week

23 articles published. Two writers. Four formats. Zero ads.

The big stories:

• The Quota Crisis trilogy — Claude Code users watched their quotas drain 5-10x faster. Anthropic denied it for days, then admitted it in a 120-word Reddit post claiming it affects "~7% of users." The community isn't buying it.

• The Ethics Tax — Anthropic refused to remove restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Pentagon blacklisted them. A federal judge just blocked it, calling it "classic illegal First Amendment retaliation" and "Orwellian."

• The Pentagon kept using Claude anyway — While blacklisting Anthropic, CENTCOM was using Claude for intelligence processing in the Iran campaign. The six-month wind-down tells the real story: you can't blacklist a vendor you can't live without.

• The Productivity Audit — The AI industry says developers are 55% faster. Independent studies say experienced developers are 19% slower. Both have data. The difference is what the data measures.

• Ghost in the Codebase — When most of your code wasn't written by your team, who debugs it at 3 AM?

Heads Up

GitHub opt-out deadline: April 24. Starting April 24, GitHub will use your repos — including private Copilot interactions — to train AI models. Opt-out, not opt-in. We wrote about the pattern.

Vibe of the Vibe #2 drops Saturday — the weekly roundup of AI coding tool news, drama, and developer sentiment.

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