According to Miguel Grinberg, creator of the popular Flask web framework, he's reaching his limit with AI-generated code contributions to his open source projects. Grinberg recently outlined a stark new policy: he will no longer review unsolicited pull requests from developers using large language models to automate their submissions. He calls this dynamic 'reverse centaur work'—the strange inversion where humans end up as reviewers for machine-generated code. Instead of wading through low-quality, machine-generated 'slop,' Grinberg now requires all contributors to open an issue and discuss their proposal with him first. It's a small but pointed stand against the tide of AI-assisted coding, and it raises a bigger question for the open source community: if developers increasingly hand off the hard work to AI, who's left doing the meaningful thinking?

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