Comment by QuantumNomad_
1 day ago
> From my experience reviewing, most contributors never read the policies, especially those making a "quick AI PR". I don't expect the new policy to change this much.
True. At least with a policy about it, the project maintainers can unilaterally close such PRs without further internal or external discussion on any case-by-case basis.
Dingdingding, we have a winner. The main use of such a policy is to be able to just close those giant wall-of-text PRs and have something to point to when people start to scream it's not fair.
> when people start to scream it's not fair
Or LLMs, as we have seen.
Or, who knows, the "AI" might gain sufficient intelligence to read the policy...
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Why is a policy necessary. you were never entitled to have your pr merged in the first place? If pr wasn't reviewable pre AI I'd expect it to be closed or ignored too
The policy isn't necessary to close the PR. The policy just helps to shut down the ensuing discussion after closing the PR. It helps in quickly dealing with well-meaning onlookers asking for clarification when you block PRs from the account.
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Prior to AI making a PR involved considerable effort from a human. So the default position for many open source projects was that it deserved some level of attention for the effort. Even if many projects in practice would struggle to review every PR. But with AI tools this dynamic has shifted dramatically - many PRs have basically zero effort been put into it. Additionally there are many more of them, and often way bigger also.