alt Hacker News> replied to objections with LLM-generated justifications that eventually overwhelmed the maintainer into merging the fix
In open source projects i participate in, "overwhelming" the maintainer gets you banned. It doesn't get your patches blindly merged. In some ways i find this one of the most shocking parts of the story.
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brazzy • today at 7:10 AM
What you imagine behind the word may be quite different from what the article tried to describe with it.
As a "new" maintainer myself - how do you decide when to ban someone? I sometimes feel overwhelmed and I can feel a big uptick in huge PRs with huge LLM written descriptions but often I also don't want to be an asshole to my community & reject all their changes.