---
title: "\"please stop\" - maintainers"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/please-stop---maintainers-9rmqfgu76
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZy1M_s-8zs
type: video:youtube
source: "ThePrimeTime"
published: 2026-01-23T12:58:07.376Z
updated: 2026-01-23T12:58:33.600Z
tags: ["ai", "open-source", "github", "technical-debt"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 60
comments: 12
language: en
---

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# "please stop" - maintainers

**[ThePrimeTime](https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen)** · 9 min read · 60 upvotes · 12 comments

## Summary

Open-source maintainers are increasingly closing external contributions due to an overwhelming influx of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests. Projects like TL Draw, Curl, and Zig have shut down or restricted contributions because AI-assisted PRs often contain poorly structured code that creates maintenance nightmares. The ease of using AI tools has lowered the barrier to entry, but removed the need for contributors to develop expertise, build relationships, or understand project architecture. Maintainers are drowning in "AI slop" that looks superficially helpful but creates technical debt and requires significant effort to review and fix. The recommendation is for contributors to invest time learning projects deeply, joining communities, and handcrafting quality contributions rather than relying on AI to generate quick PRs.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@martintsvetanov** · 4 upvotes

> It's not just code. I am now very exhausted from seeing something AI related like 50 times a day. Emails, social media posts, articles, messages, videos, arguments - almost everything has been redacted by LLM in a way and feels off. This world has become one giant AI wrapper and it feels extremely dystopian..

**@hardik15** · 2 upvotes

> This is meant to happen and will increase in the future. As big tech is promoting AI coding as a big new thing.
> They projecting AI is wring their more than half of the code

**@ishtiaqueasad** · 0 upvotes

> I mean if the code works as intended without any issue then why not accept it?

**@mavros\_lykos** · 0 upvotes

> welcome to the AI distopia

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> tbh we all saw it coming at some point, all tech and IDEs and everything competing among each other who has more AI init so for sure newbies will get the idea of :" i have to use AI to keep up" and yup.. it sucks

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Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#technical-debt](https://daily.dev/tags/technical-debt)

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