| Hi HN, Lately Github PRs have been drowning in a flood of AI slop. I’ve been seeing it myself, and I’m not the only one: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2011819428061855915 I think it’s great that folks are using AI tools to code faster and better, but too many folks are abusing them to make low-quality contributions to public repos. This takes a lot of reviewers’ mindshare. IMO there needs to be a mechanism to flag low-effort PRs with AI slop, so you can just skip reading them. So I built one:
https://haystackeditor.com/slop-detector It’s a simple AI slop detector, and I also included some AI slop examples and a “Is it Slop or Not?” game for fun. It detects AI messups like:
- changes totally unrelated to PR purpose
- hallucinated functions
- duplicate code (specifically, when the AI re-implements a functionality that already exists elsewhere)
- terrible comments Would you use a tool like this? |