I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

Miguel Grinberg, a seasoned open source developer, reflects on the growing flood of LLM-generated pull requests to his projects. He refuses to become a 'reverse centaur' — someone puppeteered by machines to review AI-generated code — and has updated his contribution guidelines to require prior discussion in an issue before any PR is submitted. He now immediately closes unsolicited PRs that show no sign of genuine human involvement. He also questions whether open source and coding culture are declining as more people outsource development to AI tools, and expresses concern about a future where machines and their owners call the shots.