#550: AI Contributions and Maintainer Load in Open Source

Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers by Michael Kennedy

May 30, 202662:42Technology

You wake up, brew the coffee, open GitHub, and there it is. Another pull request on your open source project. Thirteen thousand lines added. No issue filed first. No discussion. Just "here, please review this for me." Ov...

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