Open source software is slowly turning into open slop software

Code has become extremely cheap to produce, if you have a 5x claude subscription, you can produce or at least try to produce any piece of software you want. And, to be honest, I actually like that, I feel more people should build their own tools and release them as open source because everyone gets to turn their ideas into real products, for their own use if not for others.But this also means it is getting easier to copy a product, put it on public GitHub and announce you've killed the paid version. Being open source shouldn't give you a pass for shipping slop. If you are calling your tool a replacement for something people pay for, show how it compares.In the past week, each time I opened X, I kept seeing ads about a new open source code review tool claiming to be the "CodeRabbit killer". I have used CodeRabbit in the past and it definitely has its shortcomings, but if you're claiming you've killed a product, there needs to be evidence.I saw the advertisement so many times that I decided to evaluate how the product actually performs, it also gave me an excuse to add review capabilities into my own open source tool called shadowclone which helps me manage my agent skills and…