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Hey there 👋 Jon here. Just want you to know that I wrote every word of this article by hand, myself, pre-LLM-style.

I wouldn't ask someone to read something that I'm not willing to write.

That said, while I have creative illustration ideas , I'm not a designer! I do use ai-powered image generation in sketch-style to implement my ideas.

This all applies to my past articles as well, we only started adding this note in >=2026 given how pervasive AI slop articles have become.

As friends, long time marketplace-partners, supporters, and customers, we here at Judoscale — along with so many others from the developer community — are a bit confused about what’s going on over there in San Francisco. Frustrations aside, we’re having a hard time figuring out what to think about this whole ‘Heroku thing’.

First came the blog post on February 6th that, sort of out of nowhere, announced that: