I still think there is value in external contributors solving problems using LLMs, assuming they do the research and know what they are doing. Getting a well written and tested solution from LLM is not as easy as writing a good prompt, it's a much longer/iterative process.

> assuming they do the research and know what they are doing.

This is the assumption that has almost always failed and thus has lead to the banning of AI code altogether in a lot of projects.