Follow up to #8289
The rise of agentic programming has eliminated the natural effort-based
backpressure that previously limited low-effort contributions. It is
now too easy to create large amounts of bad content with minimal effort.
Open source projects have always had poor quality issues, PRs, etc. That
comes with the territory. Unfortunately, the ease and carelessness by which
these are now manifested has increased the "bad" count by 10x if not more.
It's ruining it for the rest of us. This policy is a result of the bad, and
I'm sorry about it.
**Going forward, AI generated contributions will only be allowed for
accepted issues and maintainers.** Drive-by pull requests with AI generated
content will be immediately closed.
**Going further, users who contribute bad AI generated content will be
immediately banned from all future contributions.** This is a zero-tolerance
policy. If you use AI, you are responsible for the quality of your
contributions. If you're using low-effort AI to create low-effort content,
I have no human obligation to help you.
If you are a junior developer who is really trying to learn and get
better, then please put aside the AI, do your best, and I will still
help. I want to help. But I expect effort and organic thinking in return.
This is not an anti-AI stance. This is an anti-idiot stance. Ghostty is
written with plenty of AI assistance and many of our maintainers use
AI daily. We just want quality contributions, regardless of how they are
made.
