> If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?

Arguably, because LLM tokens are expensive so LLM generated code could be considered a donation? But then so is the labor involved so it's kinda moot. I don't believe people pay software developers to write code for them to contribute to open source projects either (if that makes any sense).

Interesting point. To me, it seems more like those donations where you’re offerred some money in exchange for taking an action which you know is going to take more time/cost way more than the donation amount. Tho to be completely fair, it’s similar with large non-LLM pull requests as well.