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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] warm@kbin.earth 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They don't want to do it in a corner where nobody can see, they want to push it on existing projects and attempt to justify it.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They also want the safety net of the maintainers. It's cowardice really.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Use open source maintainers as free volunteers check whether your AI coding experiment works.