Armin Ronacher on the Frustration of AI-Generated "Slop" GitHub Issues★ 72
Simon Willison's Weblog·9d ago·Commentary
Flask creator Armin Ronacher highlights a frustrating trend where users submit GitHub issues reworded by AI. These reports often present highly confident but inaccurate root-cause guesswork, fake minimal reproductions, and irrelevant error logs. Ronacher advocates for returning to simple, human-observed facts: what command was run, what was expected, what actually happened, and the exact logs.