I very much can relate, as I've also been receiving many of these drive-by PRs lately.

One big problem I have with them is that they take away time from project maintainers for reviewing and helping to get the PRs into shape, which then can't be spent on other, more important things. I feel like the "good first issue" GitHub label is specifically attracting these kinds of contributions.

It's not a black-or-white thing though, and you need to tell apart folks who produce slop PRs against any arbitrary repo, from folks using AI to contribute in a sensible way. We've tried to codify some rules in our contribution guide [1]:

- PRs from apparent bot accounts are closed - PRs from users who file large numbers against random repos are closed - You're welcome to use AI, but you need to stand behind your PR and be able to explain it

I'm sure we'll adjust those rules over time, but since we have instantiated them, it definitely has become easier to deal with AI PRs and handle them in an a relatively objective way. It absolutely means that sometimes a PR will be closed which could have been an improvement, but I think this is the right thing to do given the circumstances.

[1] https://github.com/hardwood-hq/hardwood/blob/main/CONTRIBUTI...