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Reviewer Javad... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-slop-keeps-flooding-gnome-extensions-so-they-wrote-a-manual-for-bots-instead-tc0jh1wci og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TC0JH1WCI.png og:image:alt: AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead 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 Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GNOME's extensions portal (EGO) has been overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions despite a December 2025 rule explicitly banning them. Reviewer Javad Rahmatzadeh took a new approach: writing best-practice guidelines aimed directly at AI models. The guidance covers proper cleanup in destroy() methods, avoiding unnecessary error handling and boolean guard flags, targeting a single GNOME Shell version instead of many, splitting logic across files, and avoiding placeholder code. AI-generated extensions intended for personal use must also include a comment warning against uploading to EGO unless the developer understands and can maintain the code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [No AI Slops\! 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