Post #2061791
2026-05-05 16:38 UTC
i'll be honest, the article about Zig (the programming language) rejecting LLM contributions disappointed me, but not for the reason you think
i'm completely okay with projects rejecting generative AI, i don't use it myself anyway, and i find its economic, environmental and tech-debt effects to be terrible for the long term
the real problem is the whole "contributor poker" idea -- the fact that their method for evaluating whether or not an open-source project contribution should be approved is, in a way, more about whether or not the contributor will be able to benefit the project in the future
that sounds way too much like a job recruitment process to me
perhaps a programming language is a different kind of project from the things i contribute to, but my PRs in other projects often tend to be about fixing a single problem and then never interacting with that project's source code ever again
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@copygirl@fedi.anarchy.moe 2026-05-05 16:45
@rnd I thought it was pretty neat. Contributor poker is not a single-project or single-ecosystem thing. You make sure that newbie contributor has a good time, and they’ll contribute to FOSS again in general. Another project treating their contributors well? They’ll be more likely to contribute to other projects, including yours. It’s a good thing, wrapped up in language that even selfish people can understand, including corpos. Other than that I can’t really see a problem with it. (Open to being challenged on this.)