> The general trend so far in 2025 has been way more AI slop than ever before (about 20% of all submissions)
Of course that 20% of AI slop submissions are not good, but there’s an overarching problem with juniors clamoring for open source contributions without having the skills or abilities to contribute something useful.
They heard that open source contributions gets jobs, so they spam contributions to famous projects.
> The general trend so far in 2025 has been way more AI slop than ever before (about 20% of all submissions)
Of course that 20% of AI slop submissions are not good, but there’s an overarching problem with juniors clamoring for open source contributions without having the skills or abilities to contribute something useful.
They heard that open source contributions gets jobs, so they spam contributions to famous projects.