When and Why AI-Generated Merge Requests Get Declined Without Code Review
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Summary
The article explains why AI-generated merge requests (MRs) get declined without code review when they harm team productivity or project quality. It lists specific problematic patterns including unnecessary code, lack of language basics, documentation spam, inconsistencies, edge case overload, and pointless dependencies. The author provides this as a reference when declining AI-generated code submissions.
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Code deletion would improve the MR a lot.
You don't know the basics of the language you submitted.
If I decline your AI code MR with no further comments and send you this page then I suspect some of these conditions were met.
Article URL: https://blog.stuartspence.ca/2025-08-declining-ai-slop-mr.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45032715
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