• AI-generated pull requests flood Godot, overwhelming maintainers and draining resources. • Maintainers must scrutinize every PR to detect AI slop and verify contributor intent. • The line between human error and AI output blurs, complicating code review. • Godot’s open‑source ethos welcomes newcomers, but PR quality now strains the community. • Funding more maintainers is the only viable solution to handle the AI slop influx. • Automated AI detection could help, but deploying such tools feels ironic.

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  • Godot engine veteran Rémi Verschelde has warned that the influx of “AI slop” pull requests-code submissions generated by large language models-has become overwhelming for the open‑source project. On Bluesky, Verschelde noted that maintainers must now scrutinize every new contribution to determine whether it was written by a human and whether the author truly understands the code, a process he describes as “draining and demoralizing.” With 4,681 open PRs on GitHub, he argues that additional funding to hire more maintainers is the only viable solution. Verschelde dismissed automated AI‑detection tools as “horribly ironic,” preferring human oversight.

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