Sindre Sorhus, a longtime open-source maintainer, announced he has disabled external pull requests across all his repositories after 15 years of work. He says he will continue to maintain projects and respond to issues, but outside code contributions are no longer accepted. The move is framed as a practical change to protect his time and the health of his projects rather than abandoning maintenance entirely.
He explains the catalyst is AI: automated code generation and AI-assisted contributions have accelerated an existing decline in contribution quality and generated overwhelming PR spam, making time-consuming reviews impractical. He emphasizes he uses AI himself but finds it no longer sensible to vet the flood of low-value submissions. The decision has already prompted debate from other developers who call it short-sighted and point to alternative approaches advocated by figures like DHH, while Sorhus continues to host and manage his work on GitHub.
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