Why Open Source Maintainers Are Done With AI Slop

AI made PRs, issues, and security reports cheap. Maintainer trust, review time, and ownership stayed expensive.

Open source feels broken.

One developer can generate a pull request in minutes.

One security researcher can generate a scary vulnerability report in minutes.

One person can open an issue, write a reproduction that looks technical, add a long explanation, and make it sound serious enough that a maintainer has to stop and look.

But the maintainer may need hours to verify it.

That is the part AI did not automate away.