> It's not a contract job— it's our optional way of saying thank you to the community.

The writing style in their onboarding doc has common AI tells (in the quote: em dashes, “it’s not A, it’s B” sentence).

I can understand that, perhaps they want to fight fire with fire or don’t have time as they already say. Still, it all feels like inadequate half measures to me.

The entire post is clearly LLM generated. I get that a person clearly put together some thoughts, but prompting an LLM to 'turn this into a blog post' is the kind of low effort content I thought was not appropriate for HN.

At least bringing up the underlying method (restrict to contributors) has spawned the discussion about how that's probably a bad idea on the security side.

Using AI for your own project is different than being overwhelmed by AI contributions from other people/bots