Mastodawn

Disingenuous statement on the GitHub Blog on the flood of AI-generated slop "contributions" that have been overwhelming project maintainers with busy-work:

"At GitHub, we aren’t just watching this happen."

That's true. You actively pushed things to get us to this point.

#GitHub #slop

Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here's what we plan to do for maintainers.

As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.

The GitHub Blog