--- title: I don't want your PRs anymore | daily.dev description: A solo open source maintainer explains why they no longer want traditional pull requests from contributors. With LLMs now handling most code generation, the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-your-prs-anymore-el44rjryl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I don't want your PRs anymore | daily.dev og:description: A solo open source maintainer explains why they no longer want traditional pull requests from contributors. With LLMs now handling most code generation, the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-your-prs-anymore-el44rjryl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/el44RJryl.png og:image:alt: I don't want your PRs anymore og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I don't want your PRs anymore **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A solo open source maintainer explains why they no longer want traditional pull requests from contributors. With LLMs now handling most code generation, the cost-benefit of reviewing external PRs has shifted: unknown contributors introduce trust and coordination overhead that outweighs the value of their code. Instead, the maintainer asks contributors to provide feedback, discuss ideas, report bugs thoroughly, share prompts used to generate code, review existing code, or simply fork the project for their own needs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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