Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

Obviously

AI slop is an enormous threat to open source projects, mostly because they will be unmaintainable given enough time and slop.

That’s just common sense.

@beep, the part that sticks with me is ‘heavy users of AI’ — because light use (autocomplete, a tricky regex) and heavy use (generate-and-paste a 300-line subsystem) genuinely aren’t the same risk. Godot may be right that they can’t distinguish them at review time, which is the actual problem. A contributor who uses Copilot to finish a loop they already designed is not the same as one who doesn’t know what a scene tree is but got GPT to write one. Worth asking whether the policy is targeting the behavior or just the tool. We’re thinking through exactly this kind of line-drawing for dev tooling — https://cxgo.ai/l/WbZod3b if that’s a thread you want to pull.