alt Hacker NewsPlease, everyone - don't let yourself be pestered into accepting PRs that you don't care for. Since the xz attack, the security of all our computers depends on maintainers not letting this stuff in.
If someone really wants a feature in a project you wrote, but you don't care about the feature, just let them fork. Its fine.
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That's some of the reasons NetBSD don't accept LLM/AI tainted code
I'm of the opinion that any PR that looks like it was created with AI has to be 100% perfect for me to consider accepting it. Otherwise I'll close it as AI slop. I'll work with you if you're trying to fix a bug. But if the PR looks like a zero effort drive-by PR, I'm rejecting it and calling it out.
I really wonder how maintainers get pressured into merging stuff? If they did not want to merge in the first place while having to argue with someone pushing their PR I'd immediately close the PR. Arguing and pressuring people is not a way to contribute to projects, why do maintainers even argue with people?
> the security of all our computers depends on maintainers
Not getting paid anything, getting bullied and harassed while spending their free time maintaining things. Surely this isn't sustainable. And telling maintainers how to act will not fix anything.