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Godot engine maintainer Rémi Verschelde has publicly called out the growing burden of AI-generated pull requests, describing them as 'draining and demoralizing.' LLM-generated PRs often contain nonsensical changes with verbose descriptions, wasting reviewer time. The problem is widespread across open source projects including Blender, Gentoo, and others, with many adopting formal AI contribution policies. GitHub is partly blamed for incentivizing the behavior through its AI promotion, though GitHub director Ashley Wolf acknowledged the issue and outlined upcoming mitigations such as PR deletion from the UI, criteria-based gating, and automated triage. One developer has already released an Anti Slop GitHub Action claiming it could block 98% of such PRs.

Godot maintainers struggle with 'demoralizing' AI slop PRs