| > Whether it was generated by human or AI is irrelevant. No, some projects take fundamental issues with AI, be it ethical, copyright related, or raising doubts over whether people even understand the code they're submitting and whether it'll be maintainable long term or even work. There was some drama around that with GZDoom: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/10/civil-war-gzdoom-fan-... (although that was a particular messy case where the code broke things because the dev couldn't even test it and also straight up merged it; so probably governance problems in the project as well) But the bottom line is that some projects will disallow AI on a principled basis and they don't care just about the quality of the code, rather that it was written by an actual person. Whether it's possible to just not care about that and sneak stuff in regardless (e.g. using autocomplete and so on, maybe vibe coding a prototype and then making it your own to some degree), or whether it's possible to use it as any other tool in development, that's another story. Edit: to clarify my personal stance, I'm largely in the "code is code" camp - either it meets some standard, or it doesn't. It's a bit like with art - whether you prefer something with soul or mindless slop, unfortunately for some the reckoning is that the purse holders often really do not care. |
These issues are no different for normal submissions.
You are responsible for taking ownership and having sorted out copyright. You may accidentally through prior knowledge write something identical to pre-existing code with pre-existing copyright. Or steal it straight off StackOverflow. Same for an LLM - at least Github Copilot has a feature to detect literal duplicates.
You are responsible for ensuring the code you submit makes sense and is maintainable, and the reviewer will question this. Many submit hand-written, unmaintainable garbage. This is not an LLM specific issue.
Ethics is another thing, but I don't agree with any proposed issues. Learning from the works of others is an extremely human thing, and I don't see a problem being created by the fact that the experience was contained in an intermediate box.
The real problem is that there are a lot of extremely lazy individuals thinking that they are now developers because they can make ChatGPT/Claude write them a PR, and throw a tantrum over how it's discriminating against them to disallow the work on the basis that they don't understand it.
That is: The problem is people, as it always has been. Not LLMs.