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AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work

Improved AI code analysis tools paradoxically increase review burden for open-source maintainers like curl's Daniel Stenberg, as legitimate AI-assisted security research now floods projects with high-quality submissions instead of noise.

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline

As AI code quality has improved, maintainers of major open-source projects report a shift from low-quality AI submissions to high-volume legitimate reports. curl founder Daniel Stenberg and Linux kernel maintainers now face increased review burden from AI-assisted security research, highlighting the operational cost of better tooling.

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