Git slop means we need to bring back guilds

The case for gatekeeping // why medieval guilds had it figured out

Every open source maintainer I’ve talked to in the last six months has the same complaint: the absolute flood of mass-produced, AI-generated, mass-submitted slop requests have turned their repositories into a slush pile. The contributions look like contributions, they have commit messages, they reference issues and they follow templates etc.

But they are…