AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap
Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey.
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Key points
- Respondents estimated that a quarter of incoming pull requests – proposed code changes – were low-quality "AI slop.
- Open source projects have spent the past year grappling with AI-generated contributions, useful vulnerability discoveries, false positives, and duplicate reports.
- Respondents estimated that AI cut code-authoring time by 52 percent on average.
- The curl project announced this week it will move low and medium severity severity flaws to public view to protect a security team almost overwhelmed by AI-assisted reports.
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- [1]AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crapThe Register: AI/ML · Oct 21, 12:43 PM
Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey.
Respondents estimated that a quarter of incoming pull requests – proposed code changes – were low-quality "AI slop.
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