PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
Source: Hacker News
Background
The RPCS3 team maintains an open‑source PlayStation 3 emulator that has been in development since 2011. It is widely regarded as the most capable PS3 emulator, with roughly 70 % of the console’s library fully playable thanks in large part to community contributions on its GitHub repository.
RPCS3’s Request to Stop AI‑Generated Pull Requests
On May 9 2026, the RPCS3 developers posted on X (formerly Twitter) asking contributors to stop submitting “AI slop” code pull requests. They warned that they would begin banning such submissions without further notice.
Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3. We will start banning those who do without disclosing.
There are plenty of resources online to learn how to debug and code instead of generating slop that you don’t understand and that doesn’t work.
— RPCS3 on X
Community Reaction
The team’s follow‑up replies were more pointed. When a user asked how the team could be sure they weren’t rejecting human‑written code, RPCS3 responded:
“You can’t possibly handwrite the type of shit AI slop we have been seeing.”
— Reply on X
Similar Issues in Other Projects
The problem of AI‑generated pull requests is not unique to RPCS3. In February 2026, Rémi Verschelde, project manager of the Godot Engine, noted that the Godot GitHub repository had become “so overrun with AI‑generated PRs” that additional maintainers were being considered solely to manage the influx.