Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions
by IshKebab on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:33AM
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I feel like this is maybe a good thing but for the wrong reasons.
It's pretty clear at this point that AI coding works and is here to stay. But accepting external AI means you have way less knowledge about how it was generated, what models were used, were they given correct instructions etc. And also there's less benefit to accepting AI contributions because you're really receiving just a few minutes of contributor effort, which you could have easily done yourself.
There was a project highlighted recently that doesn't accept PRs at all and the maintainers just run the AI themselves. I expect that's where we're heading. If you want to contribute to open source projects in future it's going to be in the form of money for tokens.
Maybe submit a feature request/bug (prompt) and also pay some money to run the agent.
It's pretty clear at this point that AI coding works and is here to stay. But accepting external AI means you have way less knowledge about how it was generated, what models were used, were they given correct instructions etc. And also there's less benefit to accepting AI contributions because you're really receiving just a few minutes of contributor effort, which you could have easily done yourself.
There was a project highlighted recently that doesn't accept PRs at all and the maintainers just run the AI themselves. I expect that's where we're heading. If you want to contribute to open source projects in future it's going to be in the form of money for tokens.
Maybe submit a feature request/bug (prompt) and also pay some money to run the agent.