alt Hacker News> In terms of maintenance, I don't see a difference between getting a contribution from a stranger or from a stranger using an AI.
Perhaps not in terms of maintenance. In terms of provenance there is a significant difference between "I wrote this." and "I found this."
I meant as a maintainer. As a maintainer, I receive patches from contributors, I decide if I merge them or not (and under which conditions), and then I take ownership of the merged patch (as in, if it breaks I am responsible for getting it fixed).
Which means that "as a maintainer", I don't write anything. I merge code that falls from the sky. Whether it was an AI cloud or a manual-coding cloud, I don't know: from where I stand, it falls from the sky.
> there is a significant difference between "I wrote this." and "I found this."
Of course. When I write code ("I wrote this"), then it does not fall from the sky: I wrote it. I know, it's me :-). But in the open source world, being a maintainer means that you deal with code that falls from the sky. Unless you decide to close your project to contributions and only accept people you trust.