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Ask HN: AI-Contributor-Only Projects?

A Hacker News user asks whether any credible open-source projects have experimented with accepting and reviewing code contributions exclusively from AI agents, to test if AI reviewers can manage the load and keep the project on track. The question comes amid recent noise about maintainers restricting AI contributions to avoid being overwhelmed.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 16, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | Obviously a lot of noise recently of maintainers trying to stop AI contributions to avoid being overwhelmed. But I'm curious if there have been any credible experiments at the opposite extreme - where repos / code can be submitted to (and reviewed) only by AI agents. I'm curious whether it's possible to have strong enough AI reviewers to manage the load and keep the project on track. | ||||||||||| |

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