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Ask HN: Are OSS projects allowing vibe-coding?

A Hacker News user asks whether renowned open-source software projects have begun allowing AI-generated pull requests, known as "vibe-coding," to be merged. The question references a rejected AI-generated PR to the OCaml project and wonders if improved LLM models have changed project stances.

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| |||||||||||| 1 point by | Do any renowned OSS projects (e.g. OS, compilers, databases, libraries...) switched their review process and started allowing vibe-coded PR to be merged? A few months ago, there was this AI generated PR to the OCaml project ^1 that famously got rejected. Has the stance changed lately with increasingly better LLM models? --- ^1 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369 | ||||||||||| |

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