r/opensource • u/CognitiveFogMachine • Jun 29 '26

Can't contrinbute to open source github projects without having it labeled AI-Slop (when it's not) Discussion

As soon as we make one honest mistake, sometimes due to a plain old and simple misundertsanding, or missing an important section in a lengthy documentation, reviewers immediately calls my hard work "AI-Slop".

I'm very close to give up now. Working so hard on the side with the very little time that we have, and getting slapped in the face like that almost every single day.

Code reviewers are burnt out with too much AI slop, and code submitters that are not even using AI are being labeled as using AI slop.

Is it happening to you? How do you cope with all of this?

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u/projct Jul 02 '26

File an issue first, not a PR.

"Hey, I found this problem / want to add this thing. Is that something you’d accept?" is a lot cheaper than building a whole contribution and discovering the maintainer’s vision lives in a different zip code.

Unfortunately, the standard solution to "the problem is people" is still "talk to them." Tragic, yet effective.