Production Experience Cannot Be Hallucinated

I paid five dollars to read a Medium article about my own free, open source library. It was sold as hard-won production experience. It was fabricated. The first code sample used RubyLLM.client, which does not exist. It called client.chat(messages: ...), which does not exist. Then it invented RubyLLM::StreamInterrupted, RubyLLM::APIError, and a stream: proc API that RubyLLM has never had. The problem was not merely wrong information. Wrong information can be corrected. This was sold as experience with RubyLLM in production, which is a much more valuable claim. AI slop is not just filling the web with predictable cadence. It is fabricating experience. It is letting people skip the work, skip the scar tissue, and still write in the voice of someone who has been there. In open source, that turns into a tax. Maintainers build the thing, write the docs, publish the source, keep the examples working, answer the issues, and then have to police hallucinated articles about their own projects…