They're not slop, if you're talking about recent ones. You might still be operating on information for a year or two ago.
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To give one example: the ffmpeg maintainer was very anti-slop but has said publicly the current submissions (after Fable and the above anthropic warning) are decent.
> A thirty years old project could make you think you’ve seen most things already, but we have not been in this situation before.
> The rate of incoming security reports is 4-5 times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025 – meaning that on average we now get more than one report per day. The quality is way higher than ever before. The reports are typically very detailed and long.
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They're not slop, if you're talking about recent ones. You might still be operating on information for a year or two ago.
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To give one example: the ffmpeg maintainer was very anti-slop but has said publicly the current submissions (after Fable and the above anthropic warning) are decent.
Complaining about slop, 2025: https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/1984220199193891166
Mentioning serious issues are being found, 2026: https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/2066169070387413147
(I only point out their previous stance to show that they're not coming from pure AI hype)
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And here is a write up from the curl project (a very mature and previously-heavily-vetted project) about the strain they're under from real reports:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/
> A thirty years old project could make you think you’ve seen most things already, but we have not been in this situation before.
> The rate of incoming security reports is 4-5 times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025 – meaning that on average we now get more than one report per day. The quality is way higher than ever before. The reports are typically very detailed and long.