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This is my experience as well. I work with AI agents a lot, they are very useful. What's not useful is some passer-by telling the AI "implement <my favorite feature>" and then sending that as a PR. I could have written a sentence to the LLM too if I wanted to, you aren't really giving me or the project any value by doing that.

Now that writing the code is the easy part, we're just going to transition to having very few contributors, who are needed for their architectural skills, product vision, reasoned thinking, etc, rather than pure code-writing.

>>stavro+(OP)
Outside contributors have never been valuable as pure code monkeys.

>>accoun+gh
I disagree, when code took hours to write, it was very useful to have someone drive by and fix a bug for you. Now, all that does is it saves you five minutes of LLM crunching.

>>accoun+gh
Every inside contributor (besides the original author) started as an outside contributor. If the solution to the problem of LLMs is a blanket ban on outside contributors, I fear for the future of open source.