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AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap

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Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey. Respondents estimated that a quarter of incoming pull requests – proposed code changes – were low-quality "AI slop."Open source projects have spent the past year grappling with AI-generated contributions, useful vulnerability discoveries, false positives, and duplicate reports. Linus Torvalds has warmed to the tools, while remaining critical of low-qu

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