"AI slop is so bad I now keep private forks of my whole dev stack," says PySR author Miles Cranmer
MilesCranmer · x · 2026-09-04
Miles Cranmer, creator of PySR/SymbolicRegression.jl, complains that AI slop in open-source software has gotten so bad he now maintains private forks of most of his dev stack. Every upstream release, he cherry-picks the bug fixes and deletes the new features — a stark illustration of the maintainer burden created by unreviewed AI-generated contributions.
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