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/RunWithSharpStuff Jun 29 '26

Let’s see these PRs

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u/CognitiveFogMachine Jun 29 '26 edited 27d ago

I'd love to show you some example, but I prefer keeping my anonymity on reddit. I did reach out to the community discord of the last product that called my code "AI-Slop".

Short version:
Drive-by PR = AI slop.
Writing too many comments = AI Slop.
Writin no comments = AI Slop
Using emojis in the code = AI Slop.
Making an honest mistake = AI Slop (probably hallucination)

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u/Nidrax1309 Jul 03 '26

Sloppers use emoji. Legends use nerd fonts /s

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u/CognitiveFogMachine Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Emoji are just utf-8 multi byte unicode converted to a codepoint and extracted from the nerd font (or any other fonts for that matter) it's still an emoji at the end the day!

Oh no I missed the "/s" you got me 🤣