> From my experience reviewing, most contributors never read the policies, especially those making a "quick AI PR". I don't expect the new policy to change this much.

True. At least with a policy about it, the project maintainers can unilaterally close such PRs without further internal or external discussion on any case-by-case basis.

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maybewhenthesun 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Dingdingding, we have a winner. The main use of such a policy is to be able to just close those giant wall-of-text PRs and have something to point to when people start to scream it's not fair.

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mcphage 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> when people start to scream it's not fair

Or LLMs, as we have seen.

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chrisjj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Or, who knows, the "AI" might gain sufficient intelligence to read the policy...

	▲	julianlam 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then we'll amend the policy to instruct LLMs to author PRs as Fred Flintstone, yabba dabba doo!

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tayo42 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is a policy necessary. you were never entitled to have your pr merged in the first place? If pr wasn't reviewable pre AI I'd expect it to be closed or ignored too

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the_hoser 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The policy isn't necessary to close the PR. The policy just helps to shut down the ensuing discussion after closing the PR. It helps in quickly dealing with well-meaning onlookers asking for clarification when you block PRs from the account.

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tayo42 an hour ago | parent [-]

Still, your not even entitled to a discussion though.

	▲	bluGill an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Before AI a large pull request was enough effort to make that you could assume good faith work on the part of everyone. Likely even if it is bad for architectural reasons it is solving an itch other users have and it is reasonable for them to want an explanation why you refused someone who made this much effort. And since the effort required meant it didn't happen often it wasn't a big deal to provide that. These days large PRs are easy to create and so humans need to shut them down.