alt Hacker NewsWe've seen a few takes on this kind of issue, but the solution I liked the best was the linux "developers take full responsibility" approach. The "Assisted-by:" tag was a pretty nice touch too.
The article unfortunately feels more like a rant than a good exploration of the problem space.
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> the solution I liked the best was the linux "developers take full responsibility" approach.
The people who can realistically submit a Linux patch that will ever get looked at is already a super select group through who-you-know network effects.
You can't apply the same system to random open source projects, the best option for people that run random small to medium sized open source projects is just to ban all unsolicited PRs, otherwise you're going to spend way too much effort sorting through the slop.
I've struggled with this "responsibility" take. What does it mean in the context of an open source project? As far as I understand it, the original contributors of bugs are often not the ones fixing them (though they can be). Is it that if you write enough buggy code you get banned as a contributor? Is it that you're not allowed to say Claude ate my homework?