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[return to "Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop"]
1. sbonda+p5[view] [source] 2026-01-16 00:15:31
>>pranav+(OP)
Seems like reading the code is now the real work. AI writes PRs instantly but reviewing them still takes time. Everything flipped. Expect more projects to follow - maintainers can just use ai themselves without needing external contributions.
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2. stever+VR[view] [source] 2026-01-16 08:41:11
>>sbonda+p5
Reviewing code is much less of a burden if I can trust the author to also be invested in the output and have all the context they need to make it correct. That's true for my team / tldraw's core contributors but not for external contributors or drive-by accounts. This is nothing new and has up to now been worth the hassle for the benefits of contribution: new perspectives, other motivations, relationships with new programmers. It's just the scale of the problem and the risk that the repo gets overwhelmed by "claude fix this issue that I haven't even read" PRs.
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