Godot game engine bans AI-authored code contributions after maintainers overwhelmed by low-effort submissions from users unable to fix or understand their own code.

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'

(Image credit: Godot Foundation, Getty Images) Godot has been suffering from a slop problem. In February, the maintainers of the open source game engine, which powers games like Slay the Spire 2 and The Case of the Golden Idol, said they were deliberating how to address a rising tide of AI slop pull requests, which had become "increasingly draining and demoralizing" for the project's code reviewers.Today, after months of discussion, the Godot Foundation and its maintainers are drawing a line in ...