The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out

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Every open source maintainer I’ve talked to in the last six months has the same complaint: the absolute flood of mass-produced, AI-generated, mass-submitted slop requests have turned their repositories into a slush pile. The contributions look like contributions, they have commit messages, they reference issues and they follow templates etc. But they are, almost uniformly, garbage. A high PR…

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