That must be frustrating for OSS maintainers, especially when contributing them can meaningfully move the needle on getting jobs, clients, etc.
Definitely makes sense to have rules in place to help dissuade it, but this brave new world isn't going away.
Which makes me wonder what the point of even taking PRs is, the reviewer could just run the AI themselves and do the same review but not have to go through the process of leaving comments and waiting for the submitter to resolve them.
I'm imagining a funny possible outcome of this: Code linters/formatters get abandoned so personal style quirks can shine through, making code look visibly "not AI". If the quirks are consistent then it could also hint against it being faked.
I'm old enough to remember the global melt down in 2000ish and 2008. Oh and 1991 in the UK - lol, that's when I graduated. Take your money out of AI and stuff it under the mattress (gold if you are a magpie or blue stocks).
I have actually just spent out on a fairly handy GPU to stuff into one of our backup boxes at work. It has gobs of RAM and a fairly useful pair of CPUs and sits idle during the day.
AI via LLM is a thing but it isn't worth silly money and I think that a wind of change is on the way.
This is a hardware driven bubble that will mutate into the next big computing hype. Server farms have to be doing something because they cost money. So whatever the next big hype is, big-tech will jump on the bandwagon.
Hype it 'til you make it.
They really don’t though. If what they produce becomes less valuable than the electricity it takes to operate the data center they’re housed in, the biggest concern will be figuring out the cheapest way for them to do absolutely nothing.
OSS maintainers may need some kind of response like the one I've written here that can be strategically dropped on the worst "bad AI" contributions. I certainly wrote this for myself to make my job easier, anyway.