Open-source PRs devolve into 'slopcannonfest' as agents rack up GitHub stats
marktenenholtz · x · 2026-09-30
Mark Tenenholtz revised his take on open-source PRs: they are now a "slopcannonfest" where people let agents run wild on open-source code to farm GitHub stats, and the ideal future PR is basically a concrete feature request likely implemented without maintainers' core ideas — a pattern already emerging in enterprises.
The original poster he replied to (@wightmanr) disagreed harder: PRs aren't feature requests, they've become a dumping ground — few recent PRs come from someone actually using the code and hitting an issue, versus "hey agent, find some problems in this library."
Related event: Open-Source Maintainers Overwhelmed by AI-Agent Slop PRs and Issues(4 posts)→
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