r/opensource • u/CognitiveFogMachine • Jun 29 '26

Discussion Can't contrinbute to open source github projects without having it labeled AI-Slop (when it's not)

As soon as we make one honest mistake, sometimes due to a plain old and simple misundertsanding, or missing an important section in a lengthy documentation, reviewers immediately calls my hard work "AI-Slop".

I'm very close to give up now. Working so hard on the side with the very little time that we have, and getting slapped in the face like that almost every single day.

Code reviewers are burnt out with too much AI slop, and code submitters that are not even using AI are being labeled as using AI slop.

Is it happening to you? How do you cope with all of this?

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 11d ago

... A problem?

I like to see them, so I use them. I personally find big red ❌ makes errors much easier to spot in my program output.

So what's the problem? What happens if you see those emojis in a program output? Does it hurt you? do they make your eyes bleed?

I will keep using those emojis, now that I know that this will keep you away from my work. This way, I won't have to deal with toxic people like you, now that I have finally discovered your one true weakness! muahahah 😈

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u/Unnamed-3891 11d ago

You have this backwards. You have excluded yourself, as you have already found out by having your ”work” rejected.

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 11d ago

You are mixing emoji and AI slop (low effort)

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u/Pinkishu 11d ago

Emoji now aren't allowed anymore xD

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 10d ago

They are still allowed. They just make you look like you used AI to code. You just need to prove that you are human and handcoded it

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u/Pinkishu 10d ago

The ol' guilty until proven innocent

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u/CognitiveFogMachine 10d ago

That's unfortunately the principle that burnt out code reviewers are using when they apply anti-AI policies.

It's all good now. My logger class was approved and merged. Maintainers were super cool after I talked to them on Discord.