the other option is to generate 5000+ open issues that no one cares are open.

Also, it's a AI project; what, exactly, do you think they're going to try and do?

as a maintainer, seems nicer than getting a slop pr with no context.

Sounds to me they're asking people to basically at least put the starting stones to something that looks like a specification. Not a bad idea to gate the flurry of feature requests to people who actually can think 10-15 minutes about the feature they're suggesting/asking for.

I tend to think we have an industry AI mania problem, but I’m not sure I understand what you find psychotic about this. I find it better to get a text suggestion or description of the change, then work on the implementation myself, even without using an agent, instead of reviewing LLM diffs that I know I will want to tweak to my taste

SQLite has a conceptually similar contribution process:

> the project does not accept patches from random people on the internet

https://sqlite.org/copyright.html

In their case, it's motivated by a desire to keep copyrighted code out of the SQLite implementation, but I'm sure it has a nice benefit of making it so that an extremely widely used project doesn't get drive by, low effort code review requests while still allowing the community to engage.

Asking that "random people on the internet" don't sent code is not altogether a novel, post-AI idea.

They specifically ask not to create/submit a formal proposal. I do not see any restriction on the use of AI otherwise.

Coding agents are extremely useful but often extremely dumb with design. If you do not design the software yourself, you will probably get slop. This was always the core issue with vibe coding.

I think most people use it to poll their email and instant messages and whateva with an LLM

I'm currently using it to help me with my oncall, first responder to our any production alerts. It's not as efficient as coding agent by default, but it's been tremendously helpful to me.

Hermes is huge and packed with features you probably don't need. I prefer smaller one I can extend as necessary, there are so many on github now and it is fun to test them but have been impressed with dirge (https://github.com/dirge-code/dirge) not affiliated.

I have one reading my second tier RSS feeds and newsletters and giving me news/market updates filtered for things important to me