'this toxic shit' would not be occurring if we didn't invent a machine that can be used either as a firehose or a scalpel. I do acknowledge that behaving hurtfully towards somebody giving something away for free is unwarranted behaviour. perhaps a universally agreed quality control method does not exist - this does not suggest that ai slop is anything but low quality code. ai can indeed be used well, however you yourself mentioned letting humans off the hook for making egregious mistakes. pushing out ai slop IS an egregious mistake. when a release contains more commits than the previous N releases, slop likelihood increases, therefore further evidence is required to prove non sloppiness.