Changes to our Contribution Policies

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The original was posted on /r/games by /u/tapo on 2026-06-30 18:34:25+00:00.

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Comments in Godot@programming.dev

To me, this is the right approach. Contributors should not be submitting code that they don’t understand and can’t adjust.

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I agree. When I read their post, I thought good for them. It seems fair and they did a good job explaining the reasoning.

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It’s a hard problem. QEMU is currently reviewing it’s AI policy and we’re mindful to how helpful LLMs can be too someone new to the codebase while also capable of getting confused as the scope extends more widely over the repository.

We’re open to wider changes being made with pre-approval but I suspect they will be special cases like guided re-factoring where they can remove the tedium from the engineer.

We’ve been experimenting with using models for patch review but again it can be a time sync if the models go off on a wild adventure. If they could reliably catch the common gotchas that would at least alleviate some of the pressure on maintainers.

The most important part of Godot’s policy is the humans responsibility and ownership of the code.

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qemu devs are ml members?

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Alot of FOSS devs are ml members, including lemmy lol

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Oh hell yeah! One company with some damned sense

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Policy seems like a fair and good compromise.

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Transparent rules build stronger CDMWorlds.

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I don’t understand what concrete steps are being taken. People can still submit stuff and let all communication go through an LLM. What is concretely being changed here in the flow of things?

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If they see it they can reject the PR instead of going back and forth with a robot now without any complaints because they can just point to “follow our guidelines”

Without the ability to say “It goes against the guidelines” the annoying robot can tirelessly complain and plead to let its robot code into the codebase. It can keep saying “there are no rules against robot slop contributions” or “there are no rules against using a robot as a medium for conversation” draining more time and energy from a finite pool of people capable of spending time and energy reviewing code and communicating.

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Comments in Godot@lemmy.ml

Good on them! AI-produced “content” is a DDOS attack on human cognition. It takes more time to review than to produce, and the original coders rarely review the output before creating the merge request. And the planet is paying.

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Comments in Technology@lemmy.world

AI slop is an enormous threat to open source projects, mostly because they will be unmaintainable given enough time and slop.

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That’s just common sense.

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