alt Hacker NewsAh, I see what you mean - you're making a distinction between someone's speech and someone's acts. Fair enough. In that sense, you would argue that the action of dropping a 13k loc PR is impolite, and I can see that.
It's just that in my reading, I did not find his demeanor in the comment thread to be impolite. He was trying to sell his contribution and I think that whatever he wrote was using respectful language.
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He responds to a thoughtful and detailed 600-word comment from a maintainer with a dismissive "Here's the AI-written copyright analysis..." + thousands of words of slop.
The effort asymmetry is what's rude. The maintainers take their project very seriously (as they should) and are generous enough with their time to invite contribution from outsiders. Showing up and dropping 13k lines of code, posting comments copy+pasted from a chat window, and insisting that your contribution is trustworthy not because you thought it through but because you fed it through a few LLMs shows that you don't respect the maintainers' time. In other words: you are being rude. They would have to put in more upfront effort to review your contribution than you put in to create it! Then they have to maintain it in perpetuity.
Dropping an unreviewable 13000 lines PR is disrespectful to the reviewers and their time.
Doing it without any prior discussion with the maintainers is disrespectful to the maintainers and the architecture work they put in.
Trying to "sell" your contribution is disrespectful and implies you know better than the maintainers.
Cockily saying "the AI knows better than you" is disrespectful.
Respectful and polite language does not prevent being disrespectful.