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Yes this. As an author I see it as my responsibility to socialise my work early and get buy in from reviewers.

The more I think about PR review, which I've been doing a lot lately thanks to AI, the more I see it as social in nature. Built on trust and reputation. It's no wonder OSS is tending to ban AI contributions - they don't have trust and reputation to fall back on as a heuristic.

    > It's no wonder OSS is tending to ban AI contributions - they don't have trust and reputation to fall back on as a heuristic.
Have you heard about Linus Torvald's opinion about using AI/LLMs for Linux kernel patches? He seems quite open-minded about it. Roughly: "It is a useful tool."

Yes I think his stance works well for established contributors who have a reputation. For infrequent contributors, with no rep, it's a large liability to try to figure out if their plausible-at-a-glance work is actually slop. Such a liability with uncertain ROI hence the sentiment in OSS frequently banning or at least heavily policing AI usage

"There's no trust or reputation in OSS" is a pretty interesting take.

What I'm trying to get at is if a PR comes in that looks decent at a glance, well in the past that was a strong signal and now it's not. But you can fall back on the relationship you have with the author. Trust , reputation. In OSS often you have no relationship with the author (of course ex established contributors or people who have well established public reputation). Whereas in a typical workplace you will quickly establish a relationship with those you work with

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