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Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

Rémi Verschelde, a maintainer of the open source Godot game engine, is the latest to complain about the impact of "AI slop PRs [pull requests]", which he says "are becoming increasingly draining and ...
InfoWorld

GitHub eyes restrictions on pull requests to rein in AI-based code deluge on maintainers

GitHub is weighing tighter pull request controls and AI-based filters after maintainers warned that a surge of low-quality, AI-generated submissions is overwhelming open-source projects. GitHub helped ...
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Linux kernel maintainer says AI bug reports are now useful for developers

A growing body of academic research suggests that large language model agents can now produce bug reports and even patch suggestions that Linux kernel developers find actionable, a shift from earlier ...
InfoWorld

Open source maintainers are being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’

AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, ...
Diginomica

Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated security noise - $12.5 million is being deployed to throw them a lifeline

AI is burying open source maintainers under a flood of automated security reports they don't have the time or tools to process. The Linux Foundation's $12.5 million coalition funding aims to fix that ...
ZDNet

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...