I don't think using AI at all is forbidden, he just doesn't want AI to do the whole PR?

The requirement is explicitly

> If you are using *any kind of AI assistance* to contribute to Ghostty, it must be disclosed in the pull request.

This is sufficiently confusing that someone is asking if this applies to tab completion. They commit actually says

> trivial tab-completion doesn't need to be disclosed, so long as it is limited to single keywords or short phrases.

So if you take this literally you're going to be disclosing every yasnippet expansion that completes boilerplate.

The policy as written isn't sensible and I don't think it's entirely coming from a sensible place.

Junior developers need to learn how to code with AI because that's what coding is now. Not that he has to help them. But it does read a bit weird to toot your horn about how important it is to be helpful until it comes to helping people understand how to navigate the current environment then it's not worth your time.

Disclosing doesn't mean it will be declined, it's just a signal for reviewers.

The question is going to be: is it a USEFUL signal. I suspect not. And frankly, to be honest, as a senior developer who uses AI assistants routinely, I would consider it a serious disincentive to actually submit a PR in the first place to a repository that has such a policy. Submitting a good PR is hard work. Often an order of magnitude more work than the fix itself. If I think that a repository is going to not accept my PR just because I use a coding assistant, I'm going to be much less inclined to submit a PR at all.

> Junior developers need to learn how to code with AI because that's what coding is now.

Rather: this is what coding is now in some Silicon Valley bubbles.

The rules can be finely adjusted when it actually becomes problematic, they're not trying to pass a law through Congress.

They will still need to learn to recognise if the output from AI is good or not.

Yes, in the same way junior pilots are entering a workforce where they will never not be using an autopilot.

> Junior developers are entering a workforce where they will never not be using AI

This remark seems very US-centric to me. In my observation, many people are much more skeptical concerning whether AI is actually useful beyond some gimmicky applications.

Half the planet is more AI-positive than the US. Something like only 4% of Chinese people are concerned about AI while around half of Americans are concerned about AI.