How do you all feel about AI-assisted contributions?

Early-Reflection-291 · July 16, 2026, 8:06pm

I was wondering if it would be helpful if I posted in this forum the plans the AI gives for resolving the issues.

DogmaDragon · July 17, 2026, 12:45am

docs/AI_POLICY.md

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# AI Usage Policy

- AI agents are not welcome to contribute to this project.
- All issues, pull request descriptions and comments must be written by humans.
- Fully AI-generated contributions will be closed without comment.

## AI-Assisted Code Contributions

AI-assisted code contributions generated with the use of LLMs are permitted under the following conditions:

- AI usage and scope must be openly disclosed in the PR description.
- You must be able to explain any line of code and design decision during the review process.
- You must perform manual testing and describe the steps taken to sufficiently verify the changes.
- You must take full responsibility for the code, including license compliance.

We are not accepting large, complex features generated by LLMs by outside contributors at this time.

## Respect Maintainers Time

Reviewing PRs takes a significant amount of time. Anyone with zero effort can generate code with an LLM, but it takes a human to understand it, test it, and ensure it fits with the overall design of the project.

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From a non-developer point of view I see it as useless for the most part.

Not only it has no understanding of the codebase, but you personally using it can’t offer anything that developers who understands the codebase can’t do better themselves and they can even use the same LLMs.

The one exception is when there are interminent issues that can’t be reproduced by maintainers and you are able to narrow down the specific steps to reliably reproduce it.

Dining9093 · July 17, 2026, 11:10am

I think this is a good approach. AI implementations by someone who has no knowledge of the codebase is just adding more work on the maintainers.

The good thing about stash is in its plugin support, and it genuinely think that LLMs has given us a lot of functionality and niche stuff that we would never have without LLMs because real developers would need to work on it. But best to keep it to the plugins.

Early-Reflection-291 · July 17, 2026, 4:32pm

That’s a good idea, developing plugins with AI and only adding them to the main project if they are used by enough people and are already debugged. I also think it would be a good idea to restrict the github issues to maintainers and reach consensus about what to change in this forum.

Dining9093 · July 17, 2026, 4:39pm

Don’t think plugins ever need to be merged into the source. If an idea is good enough it should probably be rewritten in the correct standard by a human.