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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

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728 points freetonik | 2 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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electric_muse ◴[21 Aug 25 18:54 UTC] No.44976627[source]▶
I just submitted my first big open source contribution to the OpenAI agents SDK for JS. Every word except the issue I opened was done by AI.

On the flip side, I’m preparing to open source a project I made for a serializable state machine with runtime hooks. But that’s blood sweat and tears labor. AI is writing a lot of the unit tests and the code, but it’s entirely by my architectural design.

There’s a continuum here. It’s not binary. How can we communicate what role AI played?

And does it really matter anymore?

(Disclaimer: autocorrect corrected my spelling mistakes. Sent from iPhone.)

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1. beckthompson ◴[21 Aug 25 19:06 UTC] No.44976767[source]▶
I think its simple, just don't hide it. I've had mutliple contributors try to hide the fact that they used AI (E.g removing claude as a code author - they didn't know how to do it and close the PR when it first happened.). I don't really care if someone uses AI, but most of the people who do also do not test their changes which just gives me more work. If someone:

1.) Didn't try to hide the fact that they used AI

2.) Tested their changes

I would not care at all. The main issue is this is usually not the case, most people submitting PRs that are 90% AI do not bother testing (Usually they don't even bother running the automated tests)

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