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1. Waterl+A3[view] [source] 2025-08-21 19:07:52
>>freeto+(OP)
I’m not a big AI fan but I do see it as just another tool in your toolbox. I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR.

But I also think that if a maintainer asks you to jump before submitting a PR, you politely ask, “how high?”

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2. alfalf+5f[view] [source] 2025-08-21 20:14:52
>>Waterl+A3
The reality is as someone that helps maintain several OSS projects you vastly underestimate the problem that AI-assisted tooling has created.

On the one hand, it's lowered the barrier to entry for certain types of contributions. But on the other hand getting a vibe-coded 1k LOC diff from someone that has absolutely no idea how the project even works is a serious problem because the iteration cycle of getting feedback + correctly implementing it is far worse in this case.

Also, the types of errors introduced tend to be quite different between humans and AI tools.

It's a small ask but a useful one to disclose how AI was used.

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