Maintainer: Human-Oriented Repos Need Small PRs, Even AI-First Ones
ducktapeprogra1 · x · 2026-10-30
ducktapeprogra1 says he is not against using AI to find performance wins, but argues a human-first approach should hold unless a repo is explicitly advertised as a code-factory type project. His rule: conform to the project's conventions — human-oriented repos want small, digestible, human-reviewed PRs; even AI-first repos might accept a 10k-line PR, but smaller is still better.
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