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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by ryanbrunner on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:33AM (#50451358)
"Rules for thee, but not for me" makes some sense for OSS maintainers. The maintainer may be comfortable using AI themselves but isn't interested in slop grenade PRs, especially if they accepted PRs fairly begrudgingly in the first place.
Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by m3nu on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:36AM (#50451387)
Often I'd rather have a good prompt than a PR. Easier to see the intent of the contributor.
Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by account42 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @06:30AM (#50452165)
Perhaps but it does make the list less useful as a way to find ethical open source projects.