Right now, open-source maintainers aren’t drowning in bugs. They’re drowning in AI-generated pull requests. Developers are seeing PRs that look productive on the surface — checkmarks, summaries, “fixes,” and polished explanations. But when you actually review the code? It’s low-context, auto-generated changes from people who don’t use the project… and won’t be around to maintain what they just submitted. And that creates a new problem in the AI era: Shipping code is easy. Owning code is hard. Every extra line becomes a long-term responsibility — something a real maintainer has to debug, support, and live with for years. AI didn’t just accelerate development. It changed the economics of contribution, trust, and accountability in software. The question now isn’t: “Can AI write this?” It’s: Who is responsible when it breaks? --- What’s your take — is AI helping open source, or creating more noise than signal? Drop your perspective 👇 --- FOLLOW @activeprogrammer to learn som...