[brokencode]

Well previously lazy contributors simply would never have made a PR because it was too much work. Now they can have an LLM make a PR with virtually no effort at all.

It’s obviously an imperfect rule, and maybe it’ll change over time. But I am just saying that I understand why open source maintainers are doing this.

There is just no possibility for them to review all the low effort AI slop being thrown their way. Yes, some of it is going to actually be very high quality, but you don’t know that until you review it, which is the whole issue.

[merlindru]

Agree, but "no LLMs" locks out good PRs and contributors too.

I hypothesize it may have roughly the same effect as denying all contributions where the author used intellisense 10y ago.

A substantial portion of people who write good code will be using some sort of LLM assistance, even if it is just something like Cursor Tab (autocomplete).

Yes, you'll also hit all of the spammy PR "contributors", but you'd also do so by prohibiting all contributions by people who have a belly button

[casey2]

Use AI to Fork it, add your own features, pull in upstream changes. What are the odds that the lazy contributor with AI is better in the long run?