git-annex maintainer spends about 100 hours excluding LLM-generated dependency code

Category: Engineering post
Status: discussion
Sources: Joey Hess blog, HN discussion
Summary: Joey Hess describes spending roughly 100 hours ensuring git-annex can build without dependencies that contain LLM-generated code. He cites large AI-generated changes later reverted without explanation, incoherent commit messages on large diffs, and copyright-attribution risk, and maintains a tracking resource to make per-dependency decisions. He acknowledges the effort may not scale against industry trends.
Why it matters: It is a concrete data point in the maintainer-burden theme alongside the Godot AI-contribution ban and the curl vulnerability-report pause, showing the review cost that AI-authored code shifts onto downstream maintainers.