The Burden of Easy Contributions on Open Source
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"Just because a tool—whether a static analyzer or an LLM—makes it easy to generate a report or a fix, it doesn’t mean that contribution is valuable to the project. The ease of creation often adds a burden to the maintainer because there is an imbalance of benefit. The contributor maybe gets the credit (or the CVE, or the visibility), while the maintainer gets the maintenance burden." https://github.blog/open-source/maintain…
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