Godot Developers Complain About Influx of "AI Junk" in Code
One of the key maintainers and co-founder of W4 Games (which supports Godot), Rémi Verschelde, has expressed sharp dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs on the project's GitHub. According to him, the open-source engine is literally drowning in "AI junk" — low-quality pull requests created by chatbots from users who themselves do not understand how their code works.
Previously, Godot prided itself on being extremely open to newcomers: anyone could suggest a fix or a new feature. However, this openness has now backfired on the team. Many submitted changes appear logical at first glance, but upon detailed inspection turn out to be non-functional or contain fundamental errors that neural networks often "hallucinate."
AI agents generate huge descriptions for their edits, which maintainers have to read through, wasting precious time only to discover that the solution itself is useless. Moderators now have to "guess" whether the code's author is a human or an algorithm. This kills the community spirit, as maintainers begin to view any contribution from new faces with suspicion.