[tgsovlerkhgsel]

I suspect a good start might be engaging with the project and discussing the planned contribution before sending a 100kLOC AI pull request. Essentially some signal that the contributor intends to be a responsible AI driver not just a proxy for unverified garbage code.

[johnnyanmac]

That's the most difficult part oftentimes. People are busy and trying to join these conversations as someone green is hard unless you already have specifically domain knowledge to seek (which requires either a job doing that specific stuff or other FOSS contributions to point to).