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by warkdarrior 1 day ago
They specifically ask not to create/submit a formal proposal. I do not see any restriction on the use of AI otherwise.
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i read the emphasized "human-written" part, in combination with that last line, as a blanket restriction (for contributing). but perhaps i read it wrong.
List of commits already include at least two contributors who are openly working with Claude on their code: https://github.com/yc-software/qm/commits/main/
The point is that they just want your prompts, not your code.
yes, specifically they want purely human-written ones.

i understand why they want their own agent to do the code, and i can see the reasoning behind it. but not allowing ai to format/tidy up/flesh out the proposal is the part that i thought was a little funny.

It's definitely a little bit funny. I think it's a good and interesting rule though!