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Public story · 2026-02-26 · source-backed
GitHub officially named the AI-generated code flood an "Eternal September" for open source and shipped a repository setting to disable pull requests entirely on Feb 13. The numbers are damning: Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after 20% of submissions were AI-generated junk (zero valid in 21 days). Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets quality standards according to Voiceflow's core team lead. InfoQ's economic research shows vibe coding collapses the documentation visits and bug reports that sustain open-source maintenance. GitHub is now evaluating PR deletion, granular permissions, AI triage tools, and attribution mechanisms.
If you maintain open-source projects, enable the new PR restriction settings now. If you depend on open-source libraries, monitor whether maintainer burnout accelerates abandonment of critical dependencies.
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