Rust compiler swc stops accepting external PRs, citing flood of AI-generated pull requests
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-10-01
swc, the popular Rust-based JavaScript compiler, announced it will no longer accept external pull requests due to the flood of AI-generated PRs, apologizing for the change. The move highlights a growing open-source maintenance crisis: AI has slashed the cost of submitting contributions while pushing the burden of triage onto maintainers, raising questions about the future of external contributions to popular projects.
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