> On top of that, there are a lot of personal and subjective aspects to code. You might have certain preferences about formatting, style, structure, dependencies, and approach, and I have mine.

95% of this is covered by a warning that says "I won't merge any PR that a) does not pass linting (configured to my liking) and b) introduces extra deps"

> With LLMs, it's easier for me to get my own LLM to make the change and then review it myself.

So this person is passing on free labour and instead prefers a BDFL schema, possibly supported by a code assistant they likely have to pay for. All for a supposed risk of malice?

I don't know. I never worked on a large (and/or widely adopted) open-source codebase. But I am afraid we would've never had Linux under this mindset.

I'm with the author here; I don't really feel like dealing with people's PRs on my personal projects. The fact that GitHub only implemented a feature to disable PRs in February is absolutely baffling to me, but I'm glad it's there. Just because a project's source code is made available to the public under a permissive license does not mean the maintainer is under any obligation to merge other people's changes.

It feels like a lot of people assume a sense of entitlement because one platform vendor settled on a specific usage pattern early on.

> 95% of this is covered by a warning that says "I won't merge any PR that a) does not pass linting (configured to my liking) and b) introduces extra deps"

Maybe I'm not up to date with the bleeding edge of linters, but I've never seen one that adequately flags

    let out = []
    for(let x of arr){
      if(x > 3){
        out.append(x + 5)
      }
    }

   let out = arr
             .filter(x => x > 3)
             .map(x => x + 3)

No. When code is cheaper to generate than to review, it's cheaper to take a (well-written) bug report and generate the code yourself than to try to figure out exactly what the PR does and whether it has any subtle logical or architectural errors.

I find myself doing the same, nowadays I want bug reports and feature requests, not PRs. If the feature fits in with my product vision, I implement and release it quickly. The code itself has little value, in this case.