Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit (newscientist.com)
4 points by mattsparkes 7 days ago
1 comments

AI models are making it easier and easier to generate code to build new features, fix bugs or create entire new projects at the click of a button. But that code is often difficult to integrate into existing projects, confusing or simply garbage. While code submissions get ever easier, human contributors responsible for checking, fixing and approving them are getting swamped.
In other words, AI only saves work if you don't care about quality. Otherwise, it creates work.