AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap

Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey. Respondents estimated that a quarter of incoming pull requests – proposed code changes – were low-quality "AI slop." Open source projects have spent the past year grappling with AI-generated contributions, useful vulnerability discoveries, false positives, and duplicate reports. Linus Torvalds has warmed to the tools , while remaining critical of low-