Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions
by OroPla on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:00AM
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If the core issue was having too many contributions, wouldn't it have been a better idea to address that? Framed in this way, it looks like a scaling issue and not an AI issue.
Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions
by benrutter on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:08AM
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Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions
by OroPla on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:51PM
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I'm not saying scaling up is what the project wants to do, I'm saying that not wanting to handle more of the things you already do is a scaling issue.
And I don't know whether that premise is true, either. They could be banning AI because they don't like AI. But if they are banning AI to solve a scaling issue, I'd feel that the approach is misguided.
It's a huge amount of work to maintain a project with a large number of contributions, especially doing things like making sure the PRs don't drift things away from the initial design.
Having a bunch of PRs that don't come from a full understanding of the codebase, and drift the project into something inconsistent is a way bigger risk for most projects that "not shipping new features quickly enough".
So anyway, please don't paint these folks as "a bunch of luddites who don't understand AI" - they're just doing their best to maintain a successful project in a fast changing world that we're all trying to make sense of.