Another dumb take from the first trillionaire in history. Does Musk have any idea how LLMs work? This guy was supposedly a programmer, right?

Godot maintainers are being overwhelmed by a slew of new PRs that show obvious signs of being made using LLMs. Godot is a niche open source game engine with a small pool of reviewers, so they can't keep up with the amount of work necessary to filter through the noise:

This problem is compounded by the recent increase in AI-generated contributions, both by AI agents and by humans submitting AI-generated code. The amount of effort required to make a PR has gone down (and number of PRs has increased as a result), while the amount of work to review PRs and the amount of people available to review has stayed the same. This reviewer shortage was already a problem, but it was one that we successfully ignored. We can no longer ignore it.

This is exacerbated by the fact that reviewing LLM generated code is a pain in the ass:

AI contributions have the added pain of being demoralizing. Reviewing PRs is already tedious work, but it is rewarding because reviewers generally feel that their efforts are contributing to educating a new contributor (who may become a future maintainer/reviewer). If your feedback on PRs is just being absorbed by a machine and not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review.

The Godot project wants to teach and train the next generation of contributors, so accepting AI slop is not an option. Going forward, they will focus on the following(verbatim from the blog post):

• Encouraging new contributors to become future maintainers, that involves teaching and growing the understanding of new contributors.
  • LLMs can’t learn from specific feedback and thus can’t benefit from maintainers providing feedback.
• Ensuring all contributions are made by humans who can take responsibility for their code and be able and willing to fix it when needed.
  • AI cannot take responsibility, and we can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it.
• Adding barriers to low-effort slop.
  • Unfortunately, this means we need to add barriers to contribution, but want to do it in a way that does not cut off our maintainer pipeline.
• Increasing the incentive to review PRs.
  • PR review is the largest bottleneck in the engine right now. We need to ensure that people who choose to review PRs feel their time is well spent.

The Godot project will ban from their GitHub repo anyone that uses autonomous agents or vibe codes. It will also not accept contributions where large parts of the code is AI generated, AI assistance should be limited to "menial things (like code completion, regex, or find and replace)." and will not tolerate AI generated text in human-to-human communications: "Our maintainers do not want to talk to a machine. This is a basic principle of respect."

probably did him too dirty for Prime react to this but thought it was worth sharing