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Ask HN: Do you have ideas on dealing with AI contributions to open source?

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Projects like the Ladybird browser are outright banning non-maintainer PRs [1]. I understand this but can't help to feel it goes against the underlying spirit of modern open source.

Rust's Clippy has adopted a more nuanced review-PRs-to-get-yours-reviewed system [2], this impressed me and made me think of whether there are other perhaps similarly "gamified" ways to handle the LLM storm.

There is also Vouch, as previously discussed on HN. [3]

[1] https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

[2] https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/07/06/unite-for-clippy/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

Do you have ideas or seen other projects handle this differently? What is the situation like for your project?

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