Comment by onion2k

Major open source projects are by and large starting to ban LLMs now, because the contributions made by LLM users have been universally terrible and unhelpful.

There are two incentives for contributing to open source. The first is to make the app better (add a feature, improve the code, fix a bug, etc.) It's possible that LLMs don't meet the bar but if a human has put the effort in it's not always obvious that it's AI. More likely LLM code is accepted when it's good and rejected when it's bad. The system works.

However, the second incentive is that open source contributions are seen as a 'ahortcut' to making a name for yourself. Being a contributor on a big project goes on resumes and GitHub profiles. Often people who use AI for that don't review the code or even check it does what they say it does. That slop needs to be banned. The downside is losing the good contributions, but it's still a net win.