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by cyphar 219 days ago
> I have an issue with low quality slop whether it comes from a machine or from a human.

It's very hard for a human to mask a low-quality PR as thought it were reasonable quality. It is incredibly easy for an LLM to do it (in fact that is precisely what they are trained to do).

In addition, when I see a low-quality PR, I try to mentor the submitter. That doesn't make sense to do for LLMs (the submitter might not even bother reading my comments).

> and have guidance like AGENTS.md files that tell coding robots how to be successful in the repo.

If none of the maintainers use such tools, why is it our responsibility to maintain documentation to appease them (in the hopes of reducing spam)? A policy limiting their use is much simpler to write and requires less maintenance.