George Hotz was right. We are stuck in the Eternal Sloptember, and all your beloved open-source projects are submerged in machine-generated nonsense.
Recently, I have been closing a large number of pull requests at work. It's not that the code is inoperable. It's that it seems as if a specification was thrown into a blender, the "working" code was then tipped out, and no human was meant to ever maintain it.
The Thesis
In May 2026, George Hotz released "The Eternal Sloptember", which is a perfect title. Usenet suffered from the Eternal September — when AOL flooded the network with clueless newcomers faster than the community could socialize them. We have the same situation now, except the newcomers are tireless coding agents that never update from review feedback.
The problem isn't that agent code doesn't compile. It does. The problem is that it compiles confidently while being architecturally braindead.
