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Comment by sakesun

2 months ago

Wonder if this will become common practice from now on ?

  > Pull requests are disabled. Coding agents make it too easy to send a large, 
  > low-context change that costs maintainers more time than it saves. 
  > Thoughtful contributions are welcome; please understand the code, 
  > keep the patch focused, and respect the review time you are asking for.
  > 
  > Send a git format-patch attachment to ...

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ryanrasti  2 months ago

Funny, the same thing stuck out to me from Cloudflare OS's README (https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os#contributing):

> At this time, we are not seeking outside contribution.

> AI has made writing code easy. The hard part, today, is not writing the code, but reviewing it, making sure quality stays high, and keeping the product coherent. In that light, unfortunately, external code contributions are "donating" the easy part of the job, while creating more of the hard work.

Feels very weird, but is logically sound: owners know exactly what they want and so they can work with Claude et al to iterate on features faster than with most drive-by contributors.

It reads like an "end of an era" but I imagine the steady state will be somewhere in the middle: high trust, high context contributors will still be able to contribute meaningful work.