Volume and what i think of as uncanny valley code.
Where you, as a maintainer, previously had 10 PR’s to get through you now have 100+.
Where you, as a maintainer, previously had a range of quality of submissions, you now have a significant proportion of submissions that look reasonable, but only upon further inspection aren’t doing what is described.
Those two things are multiplicative and add an immense amount of effort on the maintainers side.
and just in case you are thinking “but automation”, it mostly doesn’t fix these issue to any appreciable degree.
That’s before you even get into what kind of % of the LLM PR’s are useful ( a different discussion )
Volume and what i think of as uncanny valley code.
Where you, as a maintainer, previously had 10 PR’s to get through you now have 100+.
Where you, as a maintainer, previously had a range of quality of submissions, you now have a significant proportion of submissions that look reasonable, but only upon further inspection aren’t doing what is described.
Those two things are multiplicative and add an immense amount of effort on the maintainers side.
and just in case you are thinking “but automation”, it mostly doesn’t fix these issue to any appreciable degree.
That’s before you even get into what kind of % of the LLM PR’s are useful ( a different discussion )