alt Hacker NewsFor an open source project, is there any reason to still accept code contributions?
Feature requests are valuable because they tell you what users want.
Error reports are valuable because they tell you under which circumstances the code fails.
But the code that implements those features and fixes those errors can now be written by AI. AI follows all the rules for how code is supposed to be written in your project. Is already producing very high quality code. And soon it will produce a quality that no human can match.
It was alluded to in the post - contributors turn into maintainers. Someone who contributes has a small but plausible chance of sticking around.
For an open source project that isn't a business, that's really the only way to recruit people