Maintainer: good AI PRs come from other maintainers, so we gate AI contributions
vboykis · x · 2026-10-11
In a discussion sparked by vboykis on AI-generated pull requests, an open source maintainer notes that almost all good AI-driven PRs come from maintainers of other projects. Contributors who don't understand why an AI solution works or its trade-offs become a problem fast, so the project has put heavy gating on AI PRs — a candid view of how open source communities really weigh AI contributions.
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