Why I’m calling your contribution “slop”

You have probably arrived at this web page because you have attempted to contribute to an Open Source software project, probably via a Pull Request and I, or perhaps someone else, has called your efforts “slop” and promptly closed/ignored it. I might also use this word to describe emails or other communication received which are of a similar nature. This post is addressed to you, and is my attempt to explain why I’ve called it “slop”. I don’t want to repeat myself on this subject, and I also don’t want to leave you totally puzzled, upset and embittered, so I’m writing it once, and just once. By “slop”, I’m referring especially to AI slop. It is, however, entirely possible that you didn’t use AI, but I can’t tell that, and your code or communication seems to share the same quality problems that AI slop has. The old way It would be nice if I could give more detailed feedback about why exactly I think your contribution matches the term “slop”. In the past, when I got a pull request that…

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