IBM Grapevine: Development Outsourced to LLM Slop and It Results in Many Bugs

IBM insiders report that the company's outsourcing of development work to large language models has produced numerous bugs, according to posts on TheLayoff.com cited in a Techrights report. The same report says IBM staff rank in the top 10 of Linux kernel contributors flagged as "sloppers," naming Paolo Abeni, and that further layoffs are expected next week, including "silent" cuts at Red Hat.

IBM Grapevine: Development Outsourced to LLM Slop and It Results in Many Bugs Cheapening things with LLMs and "we’ve had a bunch of bugs because of it" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m35fy4x1 IBM staff is in top 10 of Linux sloppers https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/23/Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest Part 8 In Conclusion.shtml , e.g. Paolo Abeni https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/21/Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest Part 6 Seeing Who Contaminates.shtml : The old joke goes, "I" in IBM is not international and the "I" in "AI" is not intelligence either. The punchline is considered racist even if in many cases it is an accurate description of IBM's workforce and demographic tidal wave. Earlier today we showed that IBM gravitates towards fraud https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/23/IBM s Anderon Already Smells Like a Fraud and IBM Insiders Heck.shtml , next week many layoffs are expected https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/17/Red Hat PIPs The Only Question is How Many.shtml 'silently' at Red Hat https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/19/Red Hat Lost 2 000 Staff Net Loss.shtml , and later in the same month IBM can disappoint the "market" again and drop another 32%. Who keeps track at this stage, seeing that the "market value" of IBM is closely connected to or depends lies told by IBM to shareholders or by mainstream media for IBM? IBM is circling down the drain and every insider knows it. █ top