Sindre Sorhus, the maintainer behind widely used JavaScript packages including Chalk, Ora and Got, said he has disabled external pull requests on all of his repositories, writing that AI had made the contribution model he has worked in for 15 years no longer sustainable, that open source as it was known was fun while it lasted, and that he will keep maintaining projects and handling issues. The post drew dozens of boosts and replies from developers debating the review load that AI-assisted contributions place on maintainers, and it follows similar moves by other projects that have closed or narrowed their contribution channels as machine-generated submissions became cheap to produce and costly to review.
Sindre Sorhus disables external pull requests across his repositories over AI
Sindre Sorhus, the maintainer behind widely used JavaScript packages including Chalk, Ora and Got, said he has disabled external pull requests on all of his repositories, writing that AI had made the contribution model he has worked in for 15 years no longer sustainable, that open source as it was known was fun while it lasted, and that he will keep maintaining projects and handling issues. The post drew dozens of boosts and replies from developers debating the review load that AI-assisted contributions place on maintainers, and it follows similar moves by other projects that have closed or narrowed their contribution channels as machine-generated submissions became cheap to produce and costly to review.
Source: Mastodon