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1. electr+X[view] [source] 2025-08-21 18:54:55
>>freeto+(OP)
I just submitted my first big open source contribution to the OpenAI agents SDK for JS. Every word except the issue I opened was done by AI.

On the flip side, I’m preparing to open source a project I made for a serializable state machine with runtime hooks. But that’s blood sweat and tears labor. AI is writing a lot of the unit tests and the code, but it’s entirely by my architectural design.

There’s a continuum here. It’s not binary. How can we communicate what role AI played?

And does it really matter anymore?

(Disclaimer: autocorrect corrected my spelling mistakes. Sent from iPhone.)

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2. kg+h2[view] [source] 2025-08-21 19:01:32
>>electr+X
The OP seems to be coming from the perspective of "my time as a PR reviewer is limited and valuable, so I don't want to spend it coaching an AI agent or a thin human interface to an AI agent". From that perspective, it makes perfect sense to want to know how much a human is actually in the loop for a given PR. If the PR is good enough to not need much review then whether AI wrote it is less important.

An angle not mentioned in the OP is copyright - depending on your jurisdiction, AI-generated text can't be copyrighted, which could call into question whether you can enforce your open source license anymore if the majority of the codebase was AI-generated with little human intervention.

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