Open Source Slop

Open Source Slop
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The evolution of open source maintainer pain is beautifully chronicled here. We've gone from dealing with WordPress folks who thought sudo apt-get install python was black magic, to corporate legal departments demanding you add a PATENTS file and comply with their 47-page contributor agreement, to now... AI-generated garbage PRs that look just plausible enough to waste your time reviewing them.

The real kicker? That security researcher questioning whether the SQLite CVEs are legitimate or just hallucinated by some LLM that learned security from Stack Overflow comments. We've reached peak dystopia where you can't tell if you're triaging actual vulnerabilities or debugging an AI's fever dream. At least the WordPress magicians were real people who eventually learned. These bots? They'll keep submitting the same nonsense forever with unwavering confidence.

Fun fact: "hallucinated by AI" is now a legitimate reason to close issues, right up there with "works on my machine" and "user error."

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