Simon Willison Surfaces Django's Official LLM Contribution Policy: AI Must Complement, Not Replace Human Judgment

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Simon Willison published a March 17 quote from Django core contributor Tim Schilling formalizing the project's stance on LLM-generated contributions: AI-assisted work is welcome when it complements human involvement, but pure LLM-generated PRs without meaningful human authorship are not. The policy reflects growing governance formalization across major open source projects before any industry-wide standard exists. A practical line being drawn that other projects will likely reference.