Death by a Thousand Slops

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Death by a thousand slops. Good, we need more closed gardens in programming. Counter-intuitively, open source getting less inclusive will make it higher quality cURL closing their Hackerone bug bounty program on HackerOne for obvious reasons: death by thousand slops, slop from both humans and AI-assisted submissions. ... BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 #203 Death by a thousand slops is such a good name

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A screenshot of an X conversation about cURL ending its HackerOne bug bounty program because of overwhelming low-quality submissions from humans and AI. The joke praises “death by a thousand slops” as a fitting name for the flood of mediocre bug reports, while sarcastically suggesting that less inclusive open source projects might produce higher quality. EN: A screenshot of an X conversation about cURL ending its HackerOne bug bounty program because of overwhelming low-quality submissions from humans and AI. The joke praises “death by a thousand slops” as a fitting name for the flood of mediocre bug reports, while sarcastically suggesting that less inclusive open source projects might produce higher quality.

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