“When I talk to people from projects who are really struggling with this, it’s because they never had systems to deal with low-quality contributions to begin with.”

In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, Josh Berkus, Kubernetes community architect at Red Hat, explains why AI-generated contributions haven’t created a crisis for Kubernetes, even though they have for other projects.

Spoiler alert: projects that invested in contributor triage, automated tests, and onboarding years ago are absorbing the AI-contribution onslaught.

Give it a listen! www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/121

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