Devs Lament GitHub's AI Slop: 'A DDoS Coming From Inside the House'
MarkNeumannnn · x · 2026-09-21
Developer Charles Foster laments that GitHub, always somewhat annoying, is now 'universally obnoxious at a volume that is mind-boggling' due to AI comments and PR overviews—'a distributed denial-of-service on this information channel, except the attackers are coming from inside the house'. Mark Neumann strongly agrees, saying reading this type of slop has caused a strong, permanent decrease in his enjoyment of day-to-day engineering and management work, though he notes some people actually love it. Follow-ups ask about social or technical mitigations.
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