Quoting Andreas Kling
Simon Willison · Simon Willison · 2026-06-05
Simon Willison highlights Ladybird browser founder Andreas Kling's announcement that the project will no longer accept public pull requests, citing AI-generated code's erosion of the traditional assumption that substantial patches signal good-faith contributor effort.
Extraction
Topics: open-sourceai-generated-codesoftware-governance
Claims
- Ladybird browser will no longer accept public pull requests.
- AI-generated code has invalidated the traditional assumption that substantial patches imply good-faith effort from contributors.
- Accountability for code entering a project matters more than how the code was produced.
- Open-source maintainers are adapting contribution policies in direct response to the rise of AI-generated submissions.
Key quotes
A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds.
Whether code was typed by hand is beside the point. What matters is who is responsible for it once it enters the browser.
The people introducing changes to it must be the people who decide those changes belong in the project, and who will answer for the consequences.