--- title: Why he banned AI from his programming language | daily.dev description: A programming language maintainer explains why they banned AI/LLM-generated contributions from their project. The core issue is that AI-generated pull requests... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-he-banned-ai-from-his-programming-language-pabn0vg2n twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why he banned AI from his programming language | daily.dev og:description: A programming language maintainer explains why they banned AI/LLM-generated contributions from their project. The core issue is that AI-generated pull requests... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-he-banned-ai-from-his-programming-language-pabn0vg2n og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/paBn0VG2n.png og:image:alt: Why he banned AI from his programming language 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. # Why he banned AI from his programming language **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A programming language maintainer explains why they banned AI/LLM-generated contributions from their project. The core issue is that AI-generated pull requests are low quality, waste reviewer time, and never result in mergeable code. With over 200 open PRs already awaiting review, the team cannot afford to spend time on 'slop contributions' from contributors who don't understand the codebase and are simply laundering ChatGPT output as their own work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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