Re:OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions
by crote on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:54PM
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What changed is that your queue used to be 75% valuable contributions / 20% easy-to-tell garbage / 5% hard-to-tell garbage, but is now 90% hard-to-tell garbage / 5% easy-to-tell garbage / 5% valuable contributions.
Your review-minutes-per-merged-contribution has exploded, and your backlog is now growing faster than you can ever dream of processing it. If you don't want to drown, your only option is to do the BigCorp thing of setting it to auto-close after X months and hope important stuff is brought up often enough that it'll catch your eye during the few hours it lives on page 1.
You might be okay with this at your day job, but it tends to be a bit of a different story when it is a hobby project you do for fun.
> It is a FOSS/OSS project, you owe nothing to anybody.
Correct. Which is exactly why many of them are banning AI-generated contributions, and vibecoders shouldn't be complaining about them not being welcomed with open arms.
Your review-minutes-per-merged-contribution has exploded, and your backlog is now growing faster than you can ever dream of processing it. If you don't want to drown, your only option is to do the BigCorp thing of setting it to auto-close after X months and hope important stuff is brought up often enough that it'll catch your eye during the few hours it lives on page 1.
You might be okay with this at your day job, but it tends to be a bit of a different story when it is a hobby project you do for fun.
> It is a FOSS/OSS project, you owe nothing to anybody.
Correct. Which is exactly why many of them are banning AI-generated contributions, and vibecoders shouldn't be complaining about them not being welcomed with open arms.