Coffee With Developers • Jan 26, 2026

Don’t Insert Crazy! On cURL and AI Slop - Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg warns that AI-generated slop is destroying the open source ecosystem. Learn why the cURL creator finally killed his bug bounty program to stop the madness.

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