{"slug": "quoting-andreas-kling", "title": "Quoting Andreas Kling", "summary": "Ladybird browser founder Andreas Kling announced the project will no longer accept public pull requests, citing that the assumption of good faith behind substantial code patches no longer holds. Kling stated that responsibility for code entering the browser must lie with the people introducing the changes, not with anonymous contributors. The policy shift aims to ensure accountability as Ladybird transitions into a browser for real users.", "body_md": "We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...]\n\nA substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds. [...]\n\nWhether code was typed by hand is beside the point. What matters is who is responsible for it once it enters the browser. Ladybird is becoming a browser for real users. The people introducing changes to it must be the people who decide those changes belong in the project, and who will answer for the consequences.\n\n— [Andreas Kling](https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/), Changing How We Develop Ladybird\n\nTags: [ladybird](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ladybird), [ai-ethics](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics), [open-source](https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [andreas-kling](https://simonwillison.net/tags/andreas-kling), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-andreas-kling", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/5/andreas-kling/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-06-05 11:10:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-05 11:42:09.837390+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "generative-ai", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Andreas Kling", "Ladybird"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-andreas-kling", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-andreas-kling.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-andreas-kling.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-andreas-kling.jsonld"}}