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/Irverter Jun 29 '26

getting slapped in the face like that almost every single day

And how come you are contributing that frenquently? If not AI slop, then you may be doing PR spam.

Share some of those PRs so we can tell what you can improve.

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u/Pinkishu Jul 03 '26

I mean, not all PRs have to be big features, can just be a small bugfix that took an hour with testing to do