Digital Litter

Stop Celebrating AI-Generated Code. It’s Creating a Graveyard of Abandoned Projects.

AI-generated code is flooding GitHub and Hacker News, but the number of actively maintained projects hasn’t increased. The real bottleneck is no longer writing codeโ€”it’s caring enough to maintain it. We’re witnessing the rise of digital litter, where abandoned repos outnumber useful ones. Stop celebrating creation; start demanding maintenance.