Changing How We Develop Ladybird

The open source landscape has changed a lot with LLMs being more commonly used for a lot of large projects. The Ladybird project, started by Andreas Kling, is an open source browser that is approaching its alpha release. The project announced that they are closing pull requests from the public.

AI tools have changed the economics of [code contributions] very quickly. We use them ourselves every day, but a pull request no longer tells us as much as it used to about the person submitting it. A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds.