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OpenClaw https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw is effectively that - 1,237 contributors, 19,999 commits and the first commit was only back in November.
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Simon, as co-creator of Django, what's your take on this story?
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I think this line says everything:

> If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole.

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I love it. Sounds like good advice for submitting a PR to any project!
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Why does it matter if the I understand the ticket and solution? THe LLLM writes the code not me. If you want to check the LLM understanding i'll be happy to copy and paste your gatekeeping questions to it.

Hey I thought you were a proponent of "no one needs to look at the code" ? dark factory, etc etc.

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Just because I write about the dark factory stuff doesn't mean I'm a "proponent" of it. I think it's interesting and there's a lot we can learn from what they are trying, but I'm not yet convinced it's the right way to produce software.

The linked article makes a very good argument for why pasting the output of your LLM into a Django PR isn't valuable.

The simplest version: if that's all you are doing, why should the maintainers spend time considering your contribution as opposed to prompting the models themselves?

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Please do, that would be amazing.

You'd have to manage the contributions, or get your AI bots to manage them or something, but it would be great to have honeypots like this to attract all the low effort LLM slop.

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I like the idea that we could quarantine away LLM contributions like how Twitter quarantines the worst of social media away from Mastodon etc.
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Moltbook meets GitHub? Sounds like a billion dollar valuation (sarcasm tag deliberately omitted).
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Actually, I'd want to see that. All the AI companies keep saying it will take our jobs, human developers won't be necessary.

Well let them put their money where their mouth is. Let's see what happens, see what the agents create or fail to create. See if we end up with a new OS, kernel all the way up to desktop environment.

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Me too, the problem is that it's hard to come up with tools that are needed but not made yet, and we don't want to end up with https://malus.sh/index.html
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