Open Source Maintainer Grapples with Surge of LLM-Generated Code Contributions
By
Miguel Grinberg
2h ago· 6 min readenOpinion
85/100
Golden Brown
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Baker's choice. Dense with flavour, light on filler.
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Summary
The author reflects on how their open source projects are increasingly receiving contributions made with LLMs (Large Language Models), despite their personal stance against using LLMs for coding. They express concern about the growing burden of reviewing AI-generated code contributions, which pushes them to spend more time maintaining projects in ways they find philosophically problematic.
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About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them.
What has changed, however, is that the number of contributions I receive on my open source projects has gone up, and nearly all are now made with LLMs.
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
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