Comment by ToucanLoucan

> But what about the good AI driven contributions though?

If even a preponderance of AI driven contributions were good, there wouldn't be blog posts and announcements making HN's front page daily about how various OSS projects and/or prominent figures were figuring out how to filter them/exclude them entirely.

If AI code was good, there wouldn't be such a thrust among so many varying communities to remove it, or ignore it.

There is, because it isn't, and because maintainers are getting fed up with it. There are good PR's just like there are emails that aren't spam that get caught in spam filtering, but spam filtering is still the default position because to allow it all is onerous to the people involved.

I think the biggest issue is simply that these tools, like any labor-saving tool, are being marketed most heavily to people who do not know how to create software. "Write code even if you know nothing about writing code." "This will let people who aren't software engineers make software." "Democratize development." On and on.

This isn't even new, we've been dealing with this since I was a little one, back then we called them script kiddies. Now they're vibe coders and their existence continues to be a boil on the ass of proper software engineers. Instead of claude, you copied code off of Stack Overflow without understanding what it did, and often foot-bulleted yourself in the process.