Investment in contributors

Another reason to disallow LLM contributions in open source projects would be that it gets in the way of the project nurturing “new, confident, trustworthy contributors“, says (even) Simon Willison:

It doesn't matter if the LLM helps you submit a perfect PR to Zig - the time the Zig team spends reviewing your work does nothing to help them add new, confident, trustworthy contributors to their overall project.

(From: The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy)

(via Cassandra)

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 89 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.

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