yeah but they could get free token usage from the community

When I contribute to OSS with AI I’m essentially engaging in a donation matching scheme where Anthropic matches 1 to 20 the dollar value invested (usually I can get ~2k of value per month on the $100 plan) in the open source project.

So any project that doesn’t accept AI PRs is really missing out on significant investment

Yeah, but then it’s either an arduous manual review or incurring a bunch of token usage to review something that may be slop.