[literalAardvark]

No, they haven't. Read the ai slop you posted carefully.

It's a policy update that enables maintainers to ignore low effort "contributions" that come from untrusted people in order to reduce reviewing workload.

An Eternal September problem, kind of.

[coldtea]

Didn't you just restate what the parent claimed?

[cwillu]

No, that's not at all the same thing: ai-generated contributions from people with a track record for useful contributions are still accepted.

[dpark]

Right. AI submissions are so burdensome that they have had to refuse them from all except a small set of known contributors.

The fact that there’s a small carve out for a specific set of contributors in no way disputes what Supermancho claimed.

[phanimahesh]

A powertool that needs discretion and good judgement to be used well is being restricted to people with a track record of displaying good judgement. I see nothing wrong here.

AI enables volume, which is a problem. But it is also a useful tool. Does it increase review burden? Yes. Is it excessively wasteful energy wise? Yes. Should we avoid it? Probably no. We have to be pragmatic, and learn to use the tools responsibly.

[dpark]

I never said anything is wrong with the policy. Or with the tool use for that matter.

This whole chain was one person saying “AI is creating such a burden that projects are having to ban it”, someone else being willfully obtuse and saying “nuh uh, they’re actually still letting a very restricted set of people use it”, and now an increasingly tangential series of comments.

[literalAardvark]

I feel like you're still failing to grasp the point.

The only difference is that before AI the number of low effort PRs was limited by the number of people who are both lazy and know enough programming, which is a small set because a person is very unlikely to be both.

Now it's limited to people who are lazy and can run ollama with a 5M model, which is a much larger set.

It's not an AI code problem by itself. AI can make good enough code.

It's a denial of service by the lazy against the reviewers, which is a very very different problem.

[coldtea]

Yes, but technically no different than "good contributions from humans are still accepted, AI slop can fuck off".

Since the onus falls on those "people with a track record for useful contributions" to verify, design tastefully, test and ensure those contributions are good enough to submit - not on the AI they happen to be using.

If it fell on the AI they're using, then any random guy using the same AI would be accepted.