the original graphic refers to this XKCD Sloperators are basically sending their little LLM agents into random repository with the prompt “make it better, don’t make it worse” for clout. those little projects upholding major infrastructure are now getting “refactored” by sloperators and their LLM agents, breaking shit they don’t understand. Or “cleanroom rebuilt” which causes original maintainers to take their shit offline.
cleanroom rebuilding is another variant of the slopification of FOSS, where techbros think they found a smart loophole around open source licenses by asking one Agent to write a specification of a project and then have a separate agent implement that specification in new code.
that way ““technically”” they’re not stealing any original code and can run it closed source / for profit / whatever the fuck.