Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Open-source software development—the open, collaborative contribution of knowledge in the name of problem solving, bug fixing, feature development, and ongoing support—is a borderline utopian idea. But the advent of generative LLMs has forced the maintainers of projects like open-source game engine Godot to face a deluge of AI-generated code from would-be contributors who might not even understand the changes they're submitting.

In a Bluesky thread (via Game Developer), Rémi Verschelde—one...