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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

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728 points freetonik | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Waterluvian ◴[21 Aug 25 19:07 UTC] No.44976790[source]▶
I’m not a big AI fan but I do see it as just another tool in your toolbox. I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR.

But I also think that if a maintainer asks you to jump before submitting a PR, you politely ask, “how high?”

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nosignono ◴[21 Aug 25 19:40 UTC] No.44977121[source]▶
> I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR.

I can generate 1,000 PRs today against an open source project using AI. I think you do care, you are only thinking about the happy path where someone uses a little AI to draft a well constructed PR.

There's a lot ways AI can be used to quickly overwhelm a project maintainer.

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Waterluvian ◴[21 Aug 25 19:42 UTC] No.44977143[source]▶
In that case a more correct rule (and probably one that can be automatically enforced) for that issue is a max number of PRs or opened issues per account.
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1. RossBencina ◴[21 Aug 25 23:47 UTC] No.44979575[source]▶
I think this is sane, although possibly not sufficient. Asking people to self-disclose AI usage is not going shield maintainers from a flood of undisclosed AI submissions.