Yeah this is what I was getting at with “reputation” - I think the world where anyone can submit a patch and get human eyes on it is a thing of the past.
replyIIRC Mitchell Hashimoto recently proposed some system of attestations for OSS contributors. It’s non-obvious how you’d scale this.
This is like trying to stop spam by banning emails that send you spam.
replyThey can spin up LLM-backed contributors faster than you can ban them.
If the situation becomes that worse, I agree with you; otherwise, I don't see that as a problem.
replyBanning AI would hardly stop that, the LLM contributors would simply claim they're not AI.
replyHence why banning AI contributions is meaningless, you literally only punish 'good' actors.