E346 - Fighting AI in Your Project Is a Terrible Mistake

#346: Drive-by PRs, AI slop, maintainers burning out -- the open source world is having a meltdown and everyone wants to blame the robots. Viktor isn't buying it.

The real problem started long before AI. Contributing to most open source projects has always depended on tribal knowledge and obscure docs nobody reads. AI didn't break that. It exposed it. When contributions were trickling in, you could get away with onboarding people via vibes. Now that contributions are a firehose, you can't.

Viktor's take cuts in a direction that will annoy a lot of maintainers: your primary...