Open-source projects are now so flooded with junk contributions that maintainers are asking GitHub for something it has never offered: a way to switch pull requests off.

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• Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026
• Refactors are cheap now, so he just does them, even when they break other people's open pull requests. PSPeter Steinberger12 Feb 2026
• Open source on GitHub creates enormous value that the platform hosting it captures none of, while its policies limit how maintainers may earn. NANadia Asparouhova13 Jun 2018
• A contribution is a cost to the maintainer, not a gift: it is taking part, not merely using the code, that consumes a project’s scarcest resource. NANadia Asparouhova14 Mar 2019
• GitHub's pull request review tooling has always lagged behind its quality as a code host. TCTyler Cipriani13 Apr 2025

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