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Or maybe open-source development is just poorly compatible with AI workflow? Today, projects may need a community, an issue tracker, but pull requests are becoming less important.

I suspect the ban of AI in established projects to be a very complex decision. Even if core developers would like to use AI, they don't want to review all of the AI-generated code from the larger community. So the only consistent way to preserve sanity is to declare that nobody would use it. Good luck enforcing it though!

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Why would the PR format be bad for LLMs? Its just code review + merging in branches, which is what every company should be doing anyway

Nothing's stopping core developers from adopting LLM generated code for themselves, while banning it for external contributors

> Nothing's stopping core developers from adopting LLM generated code for themselves, while banning it for external contributors

And if they're doing that, why would they tell you, or anyone?

And if they're doing that responsibly - collaborating with AI, and reviewing the code - they don't even have an ethical reason to tell about AI involvement, any more than telling about the StackOverflow answers or blog posts they read before coming up with some implementation.

If they were sneaking LLM generated code into these projects, we'd expect to see their feature development 10x even if they covertly aren't telling anyone. Which open source codebases have seen a truly massive 10x increase in delivered feature velocity since AI turned up? Where are all the new contributors who contribute features at 10x the rate of the existing meatcoding developers?

Then all it'd take is one of these engineers blowing the lid on their whole secret LLM contribution strategy to absolutely break the industry wide open to the benefits of these massive productivity increases, and finally prove all the doubters wrong. They sure are good at keeping secrets that would directly benefit them to expose

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