Why AI is both a curse and a blessing to open-source developers

I maintain a few small open source projects and the PR quality went off a cliff once AI coding tools got popular. People generate something that compiles and looks reasonable but is wrong in ways that take me longer to explain than to just fix myself.

The weird part is I use AI heavily for my own code and it's great. But I know the codebase since I wrote it from scratch. Someone who doesn't know it feeding prompts to Copilot produces code that passes lint and still misses the point entirely.

Hashimoto locking contributions to vouched users makes total sense. The old assumption was that effort implied understanding. That's just not true anymore.