PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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Maintainer workflow is inverting: contribution closes while triage and fixes move to AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → pipelines with a human only at merge. That is the pattern to study if your repo is drowning in AI-generated PRs.
