Long-Time Linux Kernel Maintainer Inundated With AI-Generated Submissions Steps Down

TechPowerUp · November 13, 2026

It's been well documented that the rise of AI coding agents has resulted in an influx of new submissions to open-source and Linux projects. One recent study found that as much of 25% of new pull requests were reported to be "AI slop." Maintainers of other projects, like Godot, have also lamented the flood of AI-generated code to their projects. More recently, Lorenzo Stoakes, a long-time contribut