OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions

Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by bjackman on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:34AM (#50451367)

And I think that's doing the maintainers a disservice.

"Please don't have your agent send us PRs we don't want to review it" -> yeah, totally reasonable open source maintainer behaviour, doesn't update my perception of the project at all.

"All code in this repo must be written by hand" -> This is probably not a serious project and I'll make a mental note not to depend on it.

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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by JoshTriplett on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:47AM (#50451486)

"Code must be written by hand" is not at all incompatible with "use agents to scan for vulnerabilities", or for that matter "use agents to find bugs", "use agents to help with profiling to give you data for optimization", or any number of things that aren't writing the code for you.

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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by bjackman on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:06AM (#50452949)

There's no point in using agents to find vulns if you don't have time to fix them all (you don't)

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