alt Hacker News> if major projects balk at the emergence of new classes of tools, perhaps the management strategy wasn’t resilient in the first place?
It's not the tools, it's the quality. No FOSS dev would care where the code came from if it followed the contributor's guidelines and coding style.
This is why it's a spam issue. a bunch of low quality submissions only gum up the time of such developers and slows the entire process down.
>that likely means extremely competent maintainers and contributors.
Your assumption falls apart here, sadly. Dunning-Kruger hits hard here for new contributors powered by LLMs and the maintainers suffer the brunt of the hit.
Why not just disallow PRs from non-vetted contributors?
Why not just disallow issues without a vetting process?
Many of these things could be explored -- you're right: it's a spam issue. But we have solutions to spam issues ... filters. LLMs have shown that "praying for the best" with permissive repository settings is not sufficient. We can and will improve our filters, no?