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”.
Man, I understand that it’s trying to give tips, but this really comes off as condescending. “Just create these three pieces of complex, non-obvious documentation and ensure you have highly automated specification and code quality checks.”
I also have to say, if you expect maintainers to be experts in how to correctly prompt LLMs, and expect them to be hot for reviewing/rewriting generated code, then they might as well prompt the LLMs themselves.
Sure, there may be extra effort involved by outside contributors – may, because they do attract folks who have no interest in putting in any effort – but is that really worth the overhead of having to communicate with the LLM through a middleman?Agree. Continuous Deliver has been the right path before AI and has become more important.
