I think there's a lot of push back on this, but it seems quite sensible based on my experience with open source projects.

It's a huge amount of work to maintain a project with a large number of contributions, especially doing things like making sure the PRs don't drift things away from the initial design.

Having a bunch of PRs that don't come from a full understanding of the codebase, and drift the project into something inconsistent is a way bigger risk for most projects that "not shipping new features quickly enough".

So anyway, please don't paint these folks as "a bunch of luddites who don't understand AI" - they're just doing their best to maintain a successful project in a fast changing world that we're all trying to make sense of.

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OroPla 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

If the core issue was having too many contributions, wouldn't it have been a better idea to address that? Framed in this way, it looks like a scaling issue and not an AI issue.

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benrutter 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Framed in this way, it looks like a scaling issue and not an AI issue.

I don't know - we're ignoring that the number of relatively low quality contributions is increasing due to AI. But I also don't think "scaling" is the right way to think about it, it sounds like it's something they should be doing. I.e. we want AWS lambda to be able to scale horizontally to handle large amounts of load, but do we want an open source project to scale so that it merges hundreds of PRs a day? That sounds like more movement for the sake of it, when a lot of open source projects would benefit more from stability than from new features.

	▲	OroPla 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not saying scaling up is what the project wants to do, I'm saying that not wanting to handle more of the things you already do is a scaling issue. And I don't know whether that premise is true, either. They could be banning AI because they don't like AI. But if they are banning AI to solve a scaling issue, I'd feel that the approach is misguided.

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ajjahs 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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archagon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This site is completely AI-pilled. I’ve grown to expect derisive comments for every one of these types of articles.