Generative AI halves coding time but floods open source with 25% slop

A survey of open-source maintainers found generative AI roughly halves coding time, yet a quarter of incoming pull requests are deemed low-quality slop. 59% of maintainers report growing contributions, while 21% of respondents said high-complexity tasks took longer with AI.

• A quarter of incoming pull requests are deemed low-quality slop
• 59% of maintainers report a growing volume of contributions
• 21% of respondents said complex tasks took longer with AI
• Generative AI roughly halves the time spent writing code