Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What maintainers actually screen for now For most of open source's history, the expensive part of a contribution was producing it. You had to read the codebase, find where the change belonged, write it in the project's idiom, and get the tests passing. Anyone who cleared that bar had, by definition, understood something. Review could therefore be relatively cheap: check that the patch is correct, check that it fits, merge. Coding agents removed the expensive part. A competent agent can now clone a repository it has never seen, locate a plausible fix for an open issue, write it in the local style, add a test and produce a tidy pull request, in less time than it takes to read the contributing guide. The bar that used to do the filtering has effectively been deleted. Maintainers noticed, and…
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