SMRTR AIMay 18, 2026Daily.dev

Let's talk about AI slop

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AI-generated spam flooded Archestra's GitHub repo — fake PRs, hallucinated issues, and bot comments buried real contributors' work. One team member lost half a day weekly just cleaning it up. Their fix: a custom onboarding system that uses a Git trick to whitelist legitimate contributors before they can interact with the repo.

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