Andy Matuschak pulls his email off his homepage amid flood of AI slop cold mail
andy_matuschak · x · 2026-10-04
Andy Matuschak has removed his email address from his home page because of a flood of AI-generated slop cold email — much of it, he suspects, from people prompting agents to "send personalized emails about my project to 100 relevant people." He's curious whether the change will reduce the volume.
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