> AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
[AUTHOR: Mirko Zorz]
[DATE: 26/10/2026 06:30]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running projects with more than 50 contributors estimated that close to a third of the code changes landing in their queue are low quality or AI-generated. Those maintainers now worry more about burning out than about the code itself. Across all projects, the estimate comes to about … More →
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