It's a decision they've made. Perfectly reasonable. If they did accept AI code, that's perfectly reasonable too. They just made their policy clear here..
I would personally whitelist people with good enough reputation/contribution history. Might get the best from both worlds. Avoiding AI spam while saving time for the core contributors. If they just have capability to use it responsibly.
This seems like the direction Zed has taken. Which they even enforce actively: <a href="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=label%3A%22no%20self-review%22" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=label%3A%22no....
Judging by how many once-respectable expert developers I've seen start churning out high-velocity utter crud¹, I'm not sure that anyone has the capability to use it responsibility. (Except you, of course, dear reader.)
¹: Often correlating with a marked decline in the quality of their technical writing. I don't know which direction the arrow of causality goes, but I have observed LLM use inducing madness under reasonably-controlled circumstances – different phenomenon, similar principle. I suspect the use of AI codegen systems is causing the reduction in discernment ability, rather than a sudden drop in discernment ability causing increased use of AI codegen systems.
It is unfortunate. I guess we also can blame the social pressure. Most want features and don't value quality or durability unless something breaks and is unusable. Competence is often measured with shipping speed, rather than service had zero bugs over its lifetime.
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¹: Often correlating with a marked decline in the quality of their technical writing. I don't know which direction the arrow of causality goes, but I have observed LLM use inducing madness under reasonably-controlled circumstances – different phenomenon, similar principle. I suspect the use of AI codegen systems is causing the reduction in discernment ability, rather than a sudden drop in discernment ability causing increased use of AI codegen systems.
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