Gus @projectgus@aus.social
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Re: last boost chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803

That OCaml PR is textbook open source in the era of vibe coding...

It's got everything:

- PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it.
- Copyright laundering.
- "I just wanted to get it done!" versus maintainers who know they have to live with code contributions for years.
- Zero-effort pasting LLM output as reply to real people's thoughtful questions. (At least the author acknowledged what they were doing that time.)
- It doesn't matter that it's hard to review because "AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works."
- "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

If this is our new world then it's going to turbocharge maintainer burnout. :dumpster_fire:

(If you don't want to read a quite long often depressing thread, would still recommend reading this well reasoned comment by one of the maintainers:
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14 )

Daphne Preston-Kendal (@dpk@chaos.social)

Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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@projectgusGus this is why Amaranth has a blanket "no AI" contribution policy: you could argue about its social-scale problems but my view is that it fades in comparison to "if I have to deal with slop being submitted I will simply choose to not take submissions from an open set of people at all"

"no AI PRs" is a compromise, with the other option being "the only way to get your code in is to be from the same guild"

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