Open source maintainer today is like GRRM flooded with fan-written chapters
fforres · x · 2026-10-02
Cloudflare's Kenton Varda captured the plight of open source maintainers in the AI era with an analogy: imagine everyone impatient for The Winds of Wind writing their own chapters and sending them to George R.R. Martin asking him to include them. The widely shared quip skewers how maintainers are now flooded with unsolicited, often AI-generated contributions that slow down real development rather than help.
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