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
Code generation got cheap. Review didn't. That asymmetry is destroying open source faster than any AI policy can fix.
This week I added a new metrics resources page and updated the AI policy resources page.