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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by xnorswap on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:44AM (#50451464)
If this means that the signal of valued contribution swings from "PRs merged" to "Issues raised with PRs merged" then I'm all for it.

In LLM-friendly repositories it saves everyone's time if the maintainers are the ones steering the machines, and in LLM-unfriendly ones it saves everyone's time by not having generated PRs thrown at the maintainers.

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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions by fl0id on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:50AM (#50451504)
This is not a guarantee, as many issues either do not require a PR, or the developer does not want to implement XYZ for whatever reason.
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