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Godot Maintainers Decry Flood of Low-Quality AI Pull Requests, Seek Funding for Relief

Project leaders say hiring paid maintainers is the clearest fix, with new GitHub controls providing only partial relief.

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A recent rise in “AI slop” code submissions is “draining and demoralizing” the team behind open-source game engine Godot
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Overview

  • Rémi Verschelde said AI-generated pull requests are draining and demoralizing for Godot reviewers, who now second-guess authorship, testing, and whether submitters understand their own code.
  • At the time of reporting, the project had roughly 4,681 open pull requests on GitHub, underscoring the review backlog facing volunteer maintainers.
  • Verschelde called additional funding to hire paid maintainers the only viable near-term solution, while expressing reluctance to rely on AI detectors to filter out AI-written submissions.
  • GitHub recently added options to limit or disable pull requests for non-collaborators, and its open source lead said PR deletion from the web UI is coming soon, with further gating rules under consideration.
  • Developers and adjacent projects reported similar strains, with public criticism of verbose LLM-authored PRs, emerging AI contribution policies, a Gentoo move toward Codeberg, and a third-party 'Anti Slop' action claiming high closure rates.