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by ChulioZ 1 day ago
Interesting. As someone who's not that experienced when it comes to interacting with large open-source projects, I can't say much about how this protects against being flooded with no-effort PRs by bots/people not really interested in contributing. If it does, then sure, this is understandable.

Also, I assume that the license question played a big part in this; and again, this is understandable then.

However, I do feel that this policy is unrealistic in this day and age when it comes to your valued contributors. With software development being changed so much through AI, telling your contributors that they may not use AI to write the code they want to contribute feels off.

If this is only meant as "we know you'll be using AI to generate the code anyway, and that's fine; we just have to write it in the policy to protect against flooding and licensing issues", I would find that very dishonest.