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Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software
'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls - but fortunately was forked, fast The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on....
AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work
Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify them If AI does more of the work but humans still have to check it, you need more reviewers. Now that AI models have gotten better at writing and evaluating code, open-source projects find themselves overwhelmed with the too-good-to-ignore output....
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