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Jake Wharton announced yesterday that all the Lysine projects (OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, SQLDelight…) don’t allow contributors to use LLMs to generate code or write PR descriptions/comments.

Tbh, this move I heard of recently, to disallow LLM generated content in projects completely, is nonsensical. If the code is well-reviewed, line by line, and found to be good and valid, where's the difference? The problem is not AI per se but its usage.

Opening a PR creates a burden on maintainers who need to do the labor to review it, as you say, line by line. And AI lets "developers" who have no idea what they're doing create giant walls of very plausible looking slop, creating a huge review burden.