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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by IsTom on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:37AM (#50451397)
> Blocking AI-assisted code will only drive potential contributors away.

Well, this seems to be the point of it? To drive away contributors that maintainers regard as more trouble than worth.

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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by rpdillon on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:04PM (#50457930)
They drive away both contributors that are more trouble than they're worth and contributors that aren't more trouble than they're worth by using a fairly coarse-grained rule to govern allowed submissions.

All of this will die down in a few years, I expect, but right now they're just trying to maintain their sanity.

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