AI Agents Are Changing Open Source in a Way We Barely Talk About
I'm still not sure how I feel about AI agents contributing to open source.
On one hand, they're genuinely helpful. Many projects are drowning in issues and pull requests, and maintainers don't have enough time to review everything. If an AI agent fixes a typo, improves documentation, adds tests, or even solves a simple bug, that's real value.
On the other hand, every pull request has a cost - someone still has to review it, think about edge cases, understand whether the change fits the project's architecture, evaluate new dependencies, and decide whether the solution actually solves the problem or just moves it somewhere else. A pull request isn't just code. It's another decision a maintainer has to make.
Last week, I noticed something I hadn't thought about before. While reading comments on one of my pull requests, I saw another contribution mentioned during the review. I opened the contributor's...
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