Nuisance of AI on Open Source Maintainers

June 9th, 2025

There’s no doubt AI can be a tremendous tool for productivity, research and coding. It’s also making software development more accessible to more people. This is generally good. We should strive to do so, because it’s empowering to do things yourself. There’s however a nuisance that’s slowly surfacing as a side effect of this progress: AI-generated (or mostly AI-generated) pull requests. I think there’s an attitude toward wanting to hide the fact that a tool was used to generate a […]