Simon Willison Quotes Armin Ronacher on AI-Generated GitHub Issues Degrading Open-Source Maintenance

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Simon Willison highlighted a quote from Armin Ronacher (creator of Flask, Jinja, Ruff) about the growing problem of AI-generated GitHub issues. Ronacher describes the 'most frustrating failure mode' where users submit issues that contain real problems but have been rewritten by AI ('thrown into a clanker'), stripping out the original context and voice that maintainers need to diagnose bugs. This is a practitioner-level signal that AI-generated communication is creating new friction in open-source workflows.