I've been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI generated pull requests. Going so far as to stop accepting PRs from external contributors.
This week we're going to begin automatically closing pull requests from external contributors. I hate this, sorry. pic.twitter.com/85GLG7i1fU
— tldraw (@tldraw) January 15,
Open source maintainers don’t want to hear this, but this is the way people code now, and you need to do your part to prepare your repo for AI coding assistants.
Plenty of people still code without LLMs
If someone can’t submit a PR without it being obvious they used an LLM (regardless of if they actually do) they shouldn’t be submitting a PR. This is a quality issue rather than prejudice against tools.
This bubble is going to pop, the SaaS based assistants are going to be either gone or significantly more expensive. Whether these problematic “contributors” will still be around will be interesting to see.
How fucking dare this person insist open source maintainers do all this work they’re not interested in to cater to low quality “contributors”.
you forgot to mention that this person is also recommending OSS maintainers pony up for AI to literally fight AI spam. Huh??? So now OSS maintainers who already don’t get enough donations have to spend it on AI for contributors whose code is so bad that it’s recognizable on AI? It’d be better to just not have contributions at all!
The models will remain but the companies that own the hardware that they run on may not. Of course you can still run your own, but the model size will be much, much smaller unless you have a significant setup.
you forgot to mention that this person is also recommending OSS maintainers pony up for AI to literally fight AI spam. Huh??? So now OSS maintainers who already don’t get enough donations have to spend it on AI for contributors whose code is so bad that it’s recognizable on AI? It’d be better to just not have contributions at all!
Even if the bubble pops, the existing large language models will remain, as will AI assisted coding.
The models will remain but the companies that own the hardware that they run on may not. Of course you can still run your own, but the model size will be much, much smaller unless you have a significant setup.