--- title: AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's... description: A Linux Foundation survey finds generative AI cuts open source coding time but floods maintainers with low-quality contributions. Respondents estimate a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-cuts-coding-time-but-it-s-also-filling-open-source-s-inbox-with-crap-5wu88osfl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap | daily.dev og:description: A Linux Foundation survey finds generative AI cuts open source coding time but floods maintainers with low-quality contributions. Respondents estimate a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-cuts-coding-time-but-it-s-also-filling-open-source-s-inbox-with-crap-5wu88osfl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5WU88OSFl.png og:image:alt: AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Linux Foundation survey finds generative AI cuts open source coding time but floods maintainers with low-quality contributions. Respondents estimate a quarter of incoming pull requests are 'AI slop', rising to 31 percent on larger projects. AI cut code-authoring time by 52 percent on average, though 21 percent said highly complex tasks took longer. Only 35 percent of projects have a formal GenAI policy, while 32 percent have none and no plans for one. Curl separately announced it will move low and medium severity flaws to public view to protect a security team almost overwhelmed by AI-assisted reports. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of open source pull requests are considered low-quality AI-generated slop? Maintainers estimate that about a quarter of incoming pull requests are low-quality 'AI slop', according to a Linux Foundation survey. On larger projects, that estimated share rises to 31 percent. The same survey found AI cut code-authoring time by 52 percent on average, though 21 percent of respondents said highly complex tasks actually took longer with AI. _Maintainers weighing AI contribution policies can follow open source governance debates on daily.dev._ ### Why did the curl project decide to make low and medium severity vulnerabilities public? Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg said the project will move low and medium severity flaws to public view because its security team is almost overwhelmed by AI-assisted vulnerability reports. He described maintainers as 'strained, overloaded and brought to the brink' of what they can handle, prompting the policy shift to reduce the review burden. _Developers tracking how projects cope with AI-driven report overload can follow curl's response on daily.dev._ ### What share of open source projects have a formal policy on generative AI contributions? Only 35 percent of open source projects have a formal policy permitting generative AI use, while 32 percent have no policy and no plans to create one, according to a Linux Foundation survey. This leaves expectations unclear for much of the contributor community, even as 71 percent of maintainers say GenAI has lowered barriers to contributing. _Teams drafting their own AI contribution guidelines can compare approaches surfacing on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [96% of codebases rely on open source, and AI slop is putting them at risk](https://daily.dev/posts/96-of-codebases-rely-on-open-source-and-ai-slop-is-putting-them-at-risk-zihu4vvqv) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-destroying-open-source-and-it-s-not-even-good-yet-p4vqhmmfm) · Jeff Geerling · 4 upvotes · 1 comments - [For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing](https://daily.dev/posts/for-open-source-programs-ai-coding-tools-are-a-mixed-blessing-iif95xwl6) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#curl](https://daily.dev/tags/curl) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-cuts-coding-time-but-it-s-also-filling-open-source-s-inbox-with-crap-5wu88osfl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-cuts-coding-time-but-it-s-also-filling-open-source-s-inbox-with-crap-5wu88osfl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-cuts-coding-time-but-it-s-also-filling-open-source-s-inbox-with-crap-5wu88osfl"},"datePublished":"2026-10-21T12:45:58.026Z","dateModified":"2026-10-21T12:47:01.553Z","description":"A Linux Foundation survey finds generative AI cuts open source coding time but floods maintainers with low-quality contributions. 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