AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code
I’m using AI to code my own tools. Since it’s just for me, I don’t see the problem. I’ve actually managed to create a Linux clone of Mp3tag, and now I’m building a custom music server and app. The real advantage is getting exactly the features I want. Just don’t expect to find the code online—I steer clear of those bloated Git repositories.