• Programming Production News Godot co-founder says ‘AI slop’ pull requests have become overwhelming ‘I don’t know how long we can keep it up.’ February 17, 2026 Godot co-founder Remi Verschelde has expressed dismay at the number of “AI slop” pull requests (PRs) being generated for the free, open-source engine by large language models (LLMs). • Discussing the situation on Bluesky, Verschelde said identifying and sorting AI-generated pull requests is becoming “draining and demoralising’ for Godot maintainers, who are being stretched to their limits. • “If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of,” wrote Verschelde in response to a post fromHidden Folksdirector Adriaan de Jongh,who raised the issue. • Verschelde explained Godot maintainers are now having to second guess every pull request from new contributors to determine whether code has been written (at least partially) by a human, and whether the author actually understands the code they’re submitting. • Related:Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to ‘prompt full casual games into existence’ He added that it’s also becoming increasingly difficult to understand whether mistakes are the result of human error-perhaps due to inexperience-or AI usage. • “Godot prides itself in being welcoming to new contributors, letting any engine user have the possibility to make an impact on their engine of choice,” continued Verschelde.

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  • Godot co-founder says ‘AI slop’ pull requests have become overwhelming ‘I don’t know how long we can keep it up.’ Godot co-founder Remi Verschelde has expressed dismay at the number of “AI slop” pull requests (PRs) being generated for the free, open-source engine by large language models (LLMs). Discussing the situation on Bluesky, Verschelde said identifying and sorting AI-generated pull requests is becoming “draining and demoralising’ for Godot maintainers, who are being stretched to their limits. “If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top

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