GitHub Is Thinking About Killing Pull Requests
Read OriginalThe article discusses the growing crisis in open source where maintainers are overwhelmed by a flood of low-quality, often AI-generated pull requests and bug reports. It cites examples from projects like tldraw, cURL, and Ghostty, and introduces GitHub's new response: settings that allow maintainers to disable pull requests entirely. The piece argues this reflects a deeper structural problem where AI lowers the cost of code creation but not the cost of review, extracting value from open source without reciprocity.
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